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Pulsing sounds made by technology used to monitor fish stocks may affect how baleen whales communicate, even at great distances.Marine biolo…
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Expectations were extremely modest for the Rio+20 Earth Summit that ended last week — and the best thing that might be said about the conference is that it managed to clear that low bar…
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Wildlife-conservation and animal-protection groups filed a legal petition seeking additional ship speed limits in North Atlantic right whale habitat. The petition asks the National Marine Fisheries Service to extend the existing 10-knot speed limit on the Atlantic coast beyond its December 2013 expiration date and to expand the areas and times when ship speed limits apply to avoid collisions that kill endangered whales.
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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has joined the clamor of animal rights advocates for the transfer of Mali, Manila Zoo’s only elephant, to a sanctuary where she would be freed from “years of …
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BEarthjustice sued the National Marine Fisheries Service in federal court in Honolulu today, saying the agency failed to finalize and implement a plan to protect false killer whales from Hawaii’s longline fishing industry.
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Shark finning is a major problem that’s been going on for years now. Believe it or not, there’s a demand for shark fin soup out there, and this has resulted in the over hunting and horrifying treatment of sharks.
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* Giant tortoise, 100 years old, was a symbol of the…
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Death toll of campaigners involved in protection of forests, rivers, and land has almost doubled in three years.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS: For four years the focus of this blog has been to highlight the great risks of opening America’s Arctic, the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, to offshore oil development. We started by explaining the extreme fragility…
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