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BLM defers contested leases
Published December 4, 2008, 10:01 am, Casper Star-Tribune
GREEN RIVER -- Federal officials have withdrawn most of the parcels in a popular recreation area near the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwest Wyoming that were to be offered in a competitive oil and gas sale today in Cheyenne.
US-ENVIRONMENT Summary
Published December 4, 2008, 8:46 am, Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
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Noise hard on whales
Published December 4, 2008, 8:22 am, EdmontonSun.com
ROME -- Environmentalists say increasing noise pollution in the world's oceans is drowning out the songs whales and dolphins use to communicate. They say the problem ranges from increasing commercial shipping and seismic surveys to a new generation of military sonar.
Shell Scoops Up Six Sicily Channel Licenses from Northern Petroleum
Published December 4, 2008, 7:01 am, Rigzone
Northern Petroleum has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern Petroleum (UK) Limited, has farmed-out six of its offshore Sicily Channel licenses in Italy, namely GR17-NP, GR18-NP, GR19-NP, GR20-NP, GR21-NP, GR22-NP ("Sicily Channel Licenses"), to Shell Italia E&P S.p.A.
Environment: Man-made noise in world's seas threatens wildlife
Published December 4, 2008, 2:36 am, BusinessWorld Online
ROME -- Man-made noise in the world's seas and oceans is becoming an increasing threat to whales, dolphins and turtles who use sound to communicate, forage for food and find mates, wildlife experts said on Wednesday.
Human noises drowning out song of whales
Published December 4, 2008, 2:16 am, Telegraph-Journal
The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, United Nations officials and environmental groups said Wednesday.
Sea of man-made noise silencing whales' song
Published December 4, 2008, 2:14 am, Seattle Times
The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday.
Planning For The Future / Afghan teen inspires treaty on cluster bombs
Published December 3, 2008, 10:27 pm, Pioneer Press
OSLO, Norway — An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearly 100 nations in signing a treaty Wednesday banning the disputed weapons. Afghanistan was initially reluctant to join the pact — which the U.S. and Russia refuse to support — but agreed to after lobbying by victims maimed by cluster munitions, including ...
Human noise drowns out songs of the sea
Published December 3, 2008, 8:42 pm, Contra Costa Times
n Whales, dolphins use noise to orient themselves, communicate with each other
UN Aid Worker Slain In Sri Lanka
Published December 3, 2008, 8:08 pm, Scoop.co.nz
The top United Nations humanitarian official in Sri Lanka today called on authorities to mount a thorough investigation into last week’s murder of an aid worker in the east of the violence-wracked country – the third staff member from the same relief group to have either disappeared or been killed in the Asian island nation.
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