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So far this season there have been more tropical storms and hurricanes in the east Pacific than the Atlantic basin.

The North Sea is a mature basin with dwindling oil and gas reserves.

Premier Marinas, which owns Brighton Marina, has said dredging, which involves removing natural silts that settle in the marina basin, is needed to ensure safe navigation for boats.

The Tahoe basin was under a flash flood watch Monday with the chance of “excessive rainfall” that could cause flooding or debris flows, especially along burn scars, the weather service warned.

"The work carried out by the geologists in our research programme suggested that the complex geology of the shale basins in the UK would make it significantly more difficult and costly to extract," Bradshaw says.