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Study: 235 Species In Arctic and Antarctic Waters Possibly Identical
The Arctic and Antarctic regions don’t seem to offer the friendliest conditions for life...
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Charles Darwin, 200 Years After The Theory Of Evolution
Thursday marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and later this year will see the...
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Marine Wildlife Endangered By Human-Made Underwater Noise
The impact of human activities on marine wildlife has undoubtedly
taken an unwanted course in the...
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Tag team show whale rescues worth the effort
Sydney - When whales become stranded on beaches in Australia, television pictures flash across the...
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The Supreme Court Decision Might Hurt Whales
The Supreme Court of Justice has recently made a decision to lift two restrictions imposed to how...
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Marine Mammals At Risk: Supreme Court Overturns Sonar Limitations
The latest court ruling over the use of mid-frequency navy
sonar off the coast of California...
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Gov. Palin Reacts To NOAA’s Decision On The Beluga Whales
Following the recent decision by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to...
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Palin Loses Again: Cook Inlet Beluga Whales Listed As Endangered
This week, the Cook Inlet beluga whale population near Anchorage has made it onto the list of...
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Unusual Polar Bear Spotting Highlights Disasters of Global Warming
Ten polar bears were seen swimming in open water off the northern coast of Alaska, an unusual...
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Navy Agrees To Low-Frequency Sonar Restrictions For Mammals’ Sake
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco approved on Tuesday
an agreement between the U.S. Navy...
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Giant Squid Almost Ready For Dissection
Marine scientists can only
imagine the creatures that inhabit the Antarctic waters, as they...
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Human-Friendly Dolphin Saved Whales
Malcolm Smith, field office supervisor at the Conservation Department's Wairoa office, told AP that...
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Ocean Scientists Discover Rare White Killer Whale In Alaska
A group of scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific spotted a...
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Whales’ Strange Evolution
Would you be able to compare a
huge whale to a raccoon-sized land creature? Would there be any...
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Ill Beluga Whale At Georgia Aquarium Dies
Marina,
the second oldest beluga whale at the Georgia Aquarium, died Saturday morning.
Georgia...
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Gray Whales’ Comeback Hindered By Global Warming
The depletion of gray Pacific whales is far more alarming
than it has been known until now, as it...
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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of US Navy In Whale Sonar Case
A federal appeals court in San Francisco allowed to US Navy to continue
using sonar technology...
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US Judge Protects The Whales Against Navy Sonar
The U.S. Navy is barred from using high power sonar in
training exercises due to the harm it...
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The Humpback Whales Are Back In Ocean
The humpback whales finally returned in the
ocean. The marine biologists found no trace of the...
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California Whales Are Going Back To Ocean
The two whales, which were lost in the Sacramento rivers are finally moving back to
ocean after...
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New Method To Drive To Ocean The Stranded California Whales
The marine biologists said the mammals had finally reacted to spray from a fireboat. The new...
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Scientist Concerned About The Two Humpback Whales
The saga of the two humpback whales that are stranded in a California river...
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The Lost Whales Had Found Their Way Home
The marine scientists had managed to lure back to the sea
the two humpback whales. The whales, a...
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The Two Lost Whales Resist Lure of Science; New Strategy in Place
Scientists failed to lure back into the sea the two humpback
whales. The two whales, believed to...
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Two Lost Whales Swim Up river To Sacramento
Two humpback whales, believed
to be a mother and her calf, that wandered from San
Francisco nto...
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Charles Darwin, 200 Years After the Theory of Evolution
Thursday marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and later this year will see the...
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Council Votes to Ban Commercial Fishing in Arctic
Thursday, a federal advisory board voted to ban commercial fishing north of the Bering Strait...
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Marine Wildlife Endangered By Underwater Noise
The impact of human activities on marine wildlife has undoubtedly
taken an unwanted course in the...
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Court Rules That The U.S. Navy Can Use Sonar
On
Wednesday, settling a dispute between environmentalists and the United States
Navy, the...
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Census of Marine Life: Amazing Marine Life Discoveries Announced
According to a "Census of Marine Life," a complex project that is trying to map the...
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Animal Planet’s ‘Whale Wars,’ against Japanese Whalers Premiers Tonight
Animal Planet its launching Whale Wars, a reality show which focuses on a group of eco-warriors of...
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Beluga Whales Officially Endangered
The beluga whales that live in Cook Inlet, Alaska, have been officially placed on the endangered...
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United States Government Declares Beluga Whale Endangered
On Friday,
the United States federal government declared the population
of beluga whales in...
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Japan Slaughters Thousands of Dolphins, Ignores Protests
Tokyo - At Taiji, a quaint whaling town 700 kilometres south of Tokyo, waves lap against steep...
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Supreme Court Hears Case on the Effects US Navy Sonar Has on Whales
On
Wednesday, a Supreme Court weighed the pros and cons of a federal
judge's decision to limit...
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Bangladeshi Waters Rich Haven for Dolphins, Whales
Dhaka - Researchers have identified waters along Bangladesh's coast and deep in the Bay of Bengal...
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Unstoppable Thawing in the Arctic Sea
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has announced
that Arctic sea ice is now below the...
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Australians Wail over Orphaned Whale
Sydney - There are Australians alive today who went on school trips to whaling stations and ate...
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Sonar versus Whales
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear the Navy's
demand to revert limitations on its...
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Nearly All Oceans Damaged by Human Activities, Scientists Say
Nearly every corner of the world’s oceans have been damaged
in some way by human activity and 41...
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Terri Irwin To Launch Anti-Whaling Programme
Next year, widow of TV host, Steve Irwin, will launch a
scientific campaign in order to show the...
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Hawaii Superferry Gets Permission to Sail
Governor Linda Linger and its administration decided on Monday to deliver a
newly signed law,...
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Japanese fleet kills 680 whales, misses target
Tokyo - Japan's whaling fleet failed to achieve its target but still returned to...
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Japan fails to reach whale hunt target due to obstruction
Tokyo - Japanese whaling ships returned Monday after a so-called scientific...
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Beached whales refloated in Australia
Sydney - Ten survivors from a pod of 80 whales that beached themselves near...
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Eighty whales beach on Australia's west coast
Sydney - At least 63 whales of a pod of 80 that came ashore near Margaret River...
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Aboriginal Counterpoint To The Sydney Opera House
Sydney - Tourists asked what they want from a holiday in Australia usually bang on about native...
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Joy as rescued whales rejoin their pod off Australia
Sydney - Rescuers were overjoyed Monday that 11 pilot whales that survived a mass beaching in...
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Greenpeace sees beginning of the end of Japanese whaling
Wellington - Greenpeace, an international environmental organization, hailed the beginning of the...
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Only 83 Orcas Left?
Killer whales – or orcas – have been declared an endangered species since 2005, although they were...
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International Whale Commission Decides Future of Whales
The International Whale Commission meeting was held this
year in Santiago, Chile. Even though the...
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Welcomes Back, Humpback Whales
Good news for whale lovers, as SPLASH, which stands for
Structure of Populations, Levels of...
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Baby Whale Found Dead Under San Francisco Pier
The body of a 30-foot long whale was found under Pier 27
along the Embarcadero, just south of...
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Anti-Whaling Activist Claims Attack from Japanese Whalers
Anti-whaling group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society claims that one of his members, Paul...
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Dolphin Possibly Killed By Navy Sonar
Authorities announced that a dolphin died on the beach of
the Navy's San Nicolas Island
late...
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Shocking Japanese Whaling Pictures Released by Australia
Australia
released on Thursday some disturbing images that showed a mother whale and her
calf...
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Judge Rejects Bush’s Waiver On Navy Sonar Training
President Bush’s attempt to make
an exception for the Navy and allow it’s sonar training to...
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Japanese Whaling Ships Go Back To Work
Australia's
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Friday that Japan
resumed...
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Japanese Whalers Stop Hunting
Japan
declared on Monday that its whaling fleet has stopped the hunting after it was
harassed for...
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Activists Freed, Japan Resumes Whaling Hunt
The two protesters, who were detained on board of the
Japanese whaler since Tuesday, were released...
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Ship Sent by Australia To Rescue Activists
Australia
announced on Thursday that it will send a ship to rescue the two activists
which have...
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Bush Gives The Navy Permission to Use Sonar In California
President George W Bush has exempted the Navy from an
environmental law regulating the use of...
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Activists Held in Custody by Japanese Whalers
Two activists were held captive on Tuesday by the Japanese
whalers who boarded the whaling vessel...
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Japanese Whalers Found by Greenpeace
According to the crew of the Esperanza, they’ve managed to
cast out that Japanese whaling fleet...
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Australia Sends Vessel To Monitor Japanese Whaling Fleet
The Ocean Viking, a surveillance vessel, was sent by Australia to spy on Japan’s whaling fleet in...
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Court Order Severely Restricts Navy Sonar Use
A Los Angeles federal judge
urged the Navy to limit the use of mid-frequency sonar within 12 miles...
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Japan Stops Humpback Whales Hunting in Antarctic
Japan
agreed Friday to suspend its plans to hunt humpback whales due to the
increasing calls from...
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Australia Determined to Stop Japanese Whaling Fleet
Today Australia
announced that fisheries patrol vessel will be sent to the Antarctic in order
to...
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Passengers From The Sunk Antarctic Ship Ready To Return Home
The passengers and crew of the Canadian-owned cruise liner,
The Explorer, were flown to a Chilean...
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Japans’ Whaling Fleet Urged to Return
On Monday Australia
and New Zealand
urged a Japanese whaling fleet to come back to port as it...
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Hawaii Superferry Can Sail Once Again
Hawaii-based transportation company Hawaii Superferry won a small battle against hard-line...
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