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• Dubai Marine Life At Risk After Devastating Shark Catch | Green Prophet

  "The Arabian Gulf marine ecosystem took a devastating hit this week after a pregnant great hammerhead shark was landed and forty-five pups gutted out of it in a Dubai fish market. Despite a shark fishing ban from January to April, endangered shark species are being put at risk by fishers who continue to hunt them down in the United Arab Emirates. The horrific find was recorded by shark researchers monitoring the decline of the species in the region and Thomas Vignaud, working with the Shark Quest project, along with Julia Spaet discovered the forty-five dead pups after an inspection of the female hammerhead. "

  tags: dubai fish aquaculture oceans wildlife

• BP promises further $10bn of asset sales - FT.com

  "BP is set to keep shrinking as it plans more asset sales and higher payouts to shareholders after edging up the forecast cost of the Deepwater Horizon disaster to $42.5bn. "

  tags: bp oil gas energy unitedkingdom

• Nextdoor wins backing of prominent venture capitalist - FT.com

  "Nextdoor, the social network for neighbourhoods, has raised a new round of funding that could value the company at about $500m and sees a legendary Silicon Valley investor take a punt that people want to get to know the girl next door. "

  tags: media socialnetworking technology communication community

• Coming soon: 100% self-sufficient solar beer | Sun & Wind Energy

  "Being a country where beer is the traditional beverage, it is not unusual to find German bioenergy and solar thermal companies close to breweries, providing process heat for them. However, a brewery that not only supplements its energy supply with solar and bioenergy, but is actually completely self-sufficient using these two types of renewable energy, is something entirely new. Just in time for the Oktoberfest, the Hofmühl Brewery announced its ambitious plans to be completely self-sufficient. The company has been using a solar thermal system for some time now and has been able to save around 50,000 L heating oil per year. Other breweries are already doing similar things. The 900 m² facility will now be supplemented by a combined heating and power plant that uses biomethane, which is obtained from brewer grains, surplus yeast and other waste products from the brewery."

  tags: beer brewing energy solar germany europe

• ‘Entourage’ Movie Almost a Go - The Daily Beast

• Pioneer Shale Oil Seen Fetching Near-Record Bid: Real M&A - Bloomberg

  "Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD), the energy explorer with more than 7,000 wells in the largest U.S. oil field, may draw buyers from Chevron Corp. (CVX) to ConocoPhillips to one of the industry’s biggest takeover targets. "

  tags: oil gas shale energy unitedstates m&a oilmajors

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