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Stranded Pilot Whales in Tasmania
Animals  (tags: Stranded Whales, ocean, Tasmania, rescue, beach )

Tanja
- 1638 days ago - superpastime.com
Eleven pilot whales that survived a mass stranding in Tasmania that killed 53 others have been returned to the ocean, authorities say.
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Grasping the Scale of Earth's Oceans - Earth
Animals  (tags: whales, ocean, life, wildernesharks, fishss, documentary )

Chrissy
- 1649 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hans Haas was using military diving gear to film his fabulous shark documentaries. Mike Nelson was up to his neck in Sea Hunt adventures, saving downed jet pilots; and beautiful women were hiring Mike for diving lessons.
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Killer Whales Missing
Animals  (tags: Orca, killer, whale, sea, ocean, San Juan Island, Puget )

Tanja
- 1665 days ago - superpastime.com
Killer whales missing - presumed dead
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Palin Protests Federal Listing of Beluga Whales as Endangered
Animals  (tags: beluga whales, wildlife, protection, endangered, environment, ocean, science, palin, oil, politics, dishonesty )

Tom
- 1677 days ago - redgreenandblue.org
The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet were listed as endangered on Friday by the federal government. Governor Sarah Palin questions the science showing a decline in the distinctive white species, believes "that this endangered listing is premature."
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Blue Whale Photographed For The First Time In Irish Waters
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, GoodNews, whales, ocean, environment, world )

Tom
- 1705 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
It is the largest living animal on the planet. There has been only one previous sighting of the species, thought nearly extinct in the 1960s, off the Irish coast in the last century. "It was colossal, like an oil tanker beside you. It was intimidating."
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Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency To Carbon Dioxide Cuts
Animals  (tags: habitat, environment, endangered, humans, protection, conservation, ocean, carbon dioxide, acid )

Joanna
- 1781 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (July 6, 2008) -- It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean--often called the cradle..
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Giant Starfish, Lilly Fields Found in Antarctic Waters
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, wildanimals, wildlife, antarctica, ocean )

Jacquelin
- 1888 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
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Devastation of Trawling Visible From Space
Animals  (tags: fish, ocean )

Ben
- 1917 days ago - blogmyway.org
Fishing activities called as trawling harmed hosts of species of fishes.
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That Doggone Foam!
Animals  (tags: australia, animals, dogs, ocean, foam, pulmonary diseases in humans, toxin )

Jacquelin
- 1918 days ago - thedaily.com.au
A red heeler cattle dog may have been poisoned by the sludgy, viscous foam which invaded Coast beaches for the second time on Monday. The foam has been associated with pulmonary diseases in humans, according to a University of the Sunshine Coast study.
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Amazing Picture of Humpback Having Whale of a Time Breaching Alaskan Waters | the Daily Mail
Animals  (tags: whale, pacific, sea, humpback whale, alaska, ocean )

Ceci
- 1932 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
It is surely one of nature's most exhilarating sights. A North Pacific humpback whale propels its entire body out of the sea, breathtakingly close to a lone photographer in his flimsy rubber dinghy.
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Whaling Fleet Makes Illegal Fuel Stop
Animals  (tags: whales, ocean, japanse whaling, activists, Greenpeace )

Klarabell
- 1945 days ago - greenpeace.org
Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary -- Yesterday, after 11 days of preventing the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales, activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, temporarily blocked the fleet's factory ship Nisshin Maru from being illegally refueled i
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Coral Reefs Threatened By Flesh-Eating Starfish
Animals  (tags: coral reefs, coral, Crown of thorns starfish, ocean, starfish, protection, environment, investigation )

John (Aqu
- 1950 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The notorious Crown of thorns starfish has been found in large numbers by scientists in Halmahera, Indonesia, at the heart of the so-called 'Coral Triangle', which lies between Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
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Migratory Whale Sharks Face Threat of Extinction
Animals  (tags: whale shark, shark, ocean, fishing, overfishing, extinction, endangered, AnimalWelfare, protection, suffering, environment, sadness, cruelty )

John (Aqu
- 1950 days ago - economictimes.indiatimes.com
WASHINGTON: Biologists have indicated that the migratory whale sharks, which are the world's largest shark species are facing the threat of extinction, mainly due to overfishing.
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The Fight for Orca's Freedom
Animals  (tags: Orca, whales, animal welfare, animal rights, endangered, family, habitat, humans, protection, sadness, society, whales, whaling, ethics, ocean, habitat )

J.
- 1953 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Lolita was one of 80 orcas herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island from Puget Sound on Aug. 8, 1970. That day, six whales were captured, and five were killed in the process. She was sold to the Miami Seaquarium to live out her days as a performer.
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Whales 'at Risk' From Desal Plant Discharge
Animals  (tags: whales, australia, desalination plant, ocean, dolphin, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, investigation, endangered, AnimalWelfare )

John (Aqu
- 1956 days ago - thewest.com.au
The Water Corporation has admitted the proposed Binningup desalination plant could put at risk pristine habitats favoured by whales and dolphins. The potential risk was identified in a draft environmental report prepared as part of the assessment for the
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