Gazprom Drilling for Arctic Oil With Second-Hand Rig
Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform, the advance guard of the coming expansion of Russia’s state energy corporations into the Arctic, is a cobbled together bric-a-brac of second-hand parts, some of which date to 1984.
Island Coasts Can Expand
Some islands in the Pacific could be getting larger, but this doesn’t not necessarily mean sea level rise is not a threat.
Sandy: A Warning Rising Seas Threaten Nuclear Plants
No nuclear power plant in Sandy’s path was in imminent danger of a meltdown, but the force and size of the storm surge served as a warning that rising seas and higher storm surges, could eventually have a devastating effect on the seven low-lying nuclear power generating sites on the Northeast Coast in future hurricanes…