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How the internet travels across oceans — a lot of cable laid very, very slowly

3/15/2019

 
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The New York Times 

Like a freeway for all, companies typically pooled resources to lay the many thousands of miles of undersea cables that support global communications. Now, Google is going its own way to connect the United States to its data center in Chile.


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Wildlife 'OK' with marine energy

6/27/2017

 
 ReNews-

Marine wildlife appears largely unaffected by operational wave and tidal renewable energy devices. Scottish Natural Heritage said observations over 10 years off Orkney indicated that a variety of species “will continue to use the waters” around devices.

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Climate change news: Arctic sea ice growth stunted again

3/29/2016

 
CNN-

Earth's Arctic ocean freezer is making fewer ice cubes, and that could be a problem throughout the Northern Hemisphere, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center are warning.

The center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder, reported Monday that the spread of Arctic sea ice set a new record low for the second straight year, stopping last week at 5.607 million square miles.


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Record Renewable Energy Investment in 2015

3/29/2016

 
Maritime Executive- 

Developing world investments in renewables topped those of developed nations for the first time in 2015, according to the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016 report.
Additionally, coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other renewables

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Bad news: Scientists say we could be underestimating Arctic methane emissions

12/21/2015

 
Washington Post-
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Arctic permafrost has become a recent star in the climate change conversation, capturing the attention of scientists, activists and policymakers alike because of its ability to emit large quantities of carbon dioxide as well as methane — a particularly potent 
though relatively short-lived greenhouse gas — when it thaws. As temperatures rise in the Arctic, scientists are increasingly concerned that permafrost will become a major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming.

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$21 Million And 7 Years Later, New Ocean Energy Project Will Imitate Kelp

12/17/2015

 
Clean Technica-

Ocean energy was barely mentioned during the just-completed COP21 Paris climate talks, but considering that more of the Earth’s surface will be undersea in the coming years, the ocean will likely become a key player in our sustainable energy future. With that in mind let’s take a look at a new $21 million ocean energy device called bioWAVE, which has just been deployed off the coast of Australia near Port Fairy, Victoria.

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