By Lucas Jackson and Elizabeth Culliford Sept 20 (Reuters) - A loud rumble jolted climate scientist David Holland just before he went to sleep inside his fiberglass bear-resistant dome, set up next to a frozen fjord in Greenland. He scrambled outside into the sunlit night at about 11 p.m. The thundering sound grew louder as he watched a chunk of ice about a third the … [Read more...]
Tidal Wave of Chinese Marine Parks Fuels Murky Cetacean Trade
By Farah Master HONG KONG, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Eight beluga whales jump in unison out of a bright blue indoor pool, flipping their tailfins and spewing fountains of water, as a packed audience cheers and snaps photographs. Whale shows like the one at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, located in Zhuhai on China's southern coast, are proliferating at new marine parks across the … [Read more...]
Norway’s Aker Bets On Software Engineers for Its Oil Business
By Shadia Nasralla and Gwladys Fouche STAVANGER, Norway, Sept 19 (Reuters) - When the owners of Norwegian oil firm Aker BP decided to digitise its assets and operations, they searched high and low for the right software company. But they failed to find a suitable one. So instead they set up their own, Cognite https://www.cognite.com, to create digital maps of Aker BP's … [Read more...]
China LNG Tariff Casts Shadow Over New U.S. Export Terminals
By Scott DiSavino and Sabina Zawadzki NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - China set a 10 percent tariff on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, extending a trade dispute into energy and casting a shadow over U.S. export terminals that would propel the United States into the world's second-largest LNG seller. Beijing on Tuesday said it would tax U.S. products worth … [Read more...]
China Sets Tariff On U.S. LNG Just as Exports Ramp Up
Sept 18 (Reuters) - China has set a 10 percent tariff on imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas just as trade of the super-chilled fuel between the two nations started to ramp up and exports from new terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast are poised to begin. Beijing announced on Tuesday it would tax thousands of U.S. products worth $60 billion in retaliation for tariffs imposed by … [Read more...]