Shell May Resume Offshore Development as Early as Next Summer

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U.S. Senator Mark Begich welcomed an effort today by the federal Department of Interior to put Shell’s oil and gas development in Alaska’s Arctic waters back on track after an environmental lawsuit side-tracked them last year. In a legal filing today with the federal judge in the case, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) […]

NOAA-Led Researchers Discover Ocean Acidity is Dissolving Shells of Tiny Snails off the U.S. West Coast

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A NOAA-led research team has found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine snails, called pteropods, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel and herring, according to a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers estimate that the percentage of […]

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