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Navy SEAL Photos In New Book, "SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Stephanie Freid-Perenchio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Navy Seals, Seals, War, Veterans Day, New Books, Books, Military Families, Photography, War Photos, Photos, Books News
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio

After the events of 9/11, I realized that the world of Navy SEALs was still shrouded in secrecy. I wanted to explore and shed light upon this culture that most people had never seen nor fully understood.

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Melting Ice Leaves Polar Bears Desperate For Any Food

Features | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Melting Ice Caps, Polar Bears, Animals, Global Warming, Green News

With no sign of their usual prey - seals resting on the ice - this female and her two cubs are forced to swim for miles, then trudge across the Alaska...

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Pamela Anderson Launches Anti-Seal Hunt Campaign

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Save the Seals, Seals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Canada Seal Hunt, Seal Hunt, Animals, Pamela Anderson, Green News

TORONTO — Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wants to save the seals from the annual hunt on Canada's East Coast. The Canadian-born actress...

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Big Stakes at Pebble Mine: NRDC Launches Bristol Bay BioGem Campaign

Taryn Kiekow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Salmon, Bristolbay, Biogems, Whales, Mining, Bristol Bay Salmon Population, Ecosystem, Environment, Pebble Mine, Alaska Mining, Cook Inlet Beluga Whale, Bristol Bay Mining, Ecosystem Protection, Green News
Taryn Kiekow

Although the foreign mining partnership claims that it will "respect all of Alaska's natural resources," the stakes are too great to roll the dice.

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'Animal Collective' Protests Seal Clubbing (VIDEO)

Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Animal Activism, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Peta, Animal Collective, Seal Clubbing, Green News

The members of the band Animal Collective recently joined forces with PETA to take a stand against Canada's seal slaughter. In the video below the tri...

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Aquatic Accommodations

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dolphins, Marine Life, San Diego, The Cove, Steller Sea Lions, Sea Otters, Seals, Shark Finning, Turtles, Alice Waters, Seals La Jolla Beach, Whales, Right Whales, Politics News
Michael Markarian

It's been a good week for marine life, and this week's advances follow a steady drumbeat of recent victories for ocean creatures.

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Judge Orders Seals Out Of Pool After Disgruntled Swimmer Files Lawsuit

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals Children's Pool, Seals, Seals La Jolla Beach, Judge Orders Seals, Green News

SAN DIEGO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cast a lifeline Monday to a colony of federally protected harbor seals that spend their days lounging aro...

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Namibia Seal Hunt Filmers, Jim Wickens And Bart Smithers, Convicted Of Trespassing

AP | MICHELLE THERIAULT | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Africa, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Seal, Seals, Seal Hunt, Namibia, Namibia Seal Hunt, South Africa, Jim Wickens, Bart Smithers, Animals, Ecostorm, World News

JOHANNESBURG — Two foreign journalists who were arrested in Namibia while filming the clubbing of seals were convicted Friday of entering a prot...

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Ventura: "Palin Would Never Make It As A Navy SEAL" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minnesota, Navy Seals, Sarah Palin Resignation, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Seals, Larry King, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska, Jesse Ventura, Larry King LIve, Politics News

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura called Sarah Palin a "quitter" on CNN's Larry King Live last night. "She is a quitter. Let me put it to you this ...

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Seal Sorrow: 90,000 Seals To Be Clubbed To Death

AP | MICHELLE THERIAULT | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Seal, Seal-Clubbing, Animal Rights, Baby Seals, Animals, Nambia, Africa, Green News

JOHANNESBURG — Namibia's annual commercial seal hunt will go on despite objections by animal welfare groups, a government official said Monday. ...

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Seals Help Kids Get Fit

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Fitness, Seals, Seal Aerobics, Seals and Kids, Children's Health, Animals, Childhood Obesity, Green News

BOSTON — Yes, he's obsessed with grooming, and he occasionally barks at you, but in most ways Isaac is not your typical fitness instructor. He w...

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Environmentalists Plan Suit To Protect Ice Seals

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Bearded Seals, Spotted Seals, Climate Change, Ringed Seals, Seals, Animals, Global Warming, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An environmental group plans to sue the federal government to force a decision on additional protections for Arctic seals. ...

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Canadian Governor General Eats Raw Seal Heart In Support Of Hunters

AP | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Canada, Animals, Seal Hunt, Hunting, Seal Heart, Green News

RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — Canada's governor general ate a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to the country's seal hunters, a displ...

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Europe Votes to Save Seals

Michael Markarian | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, European Union, Canada Seal Hunt, Animals, Canada, Green News
Michael Markarian

Just weeks ago, the world's most beautiful nursery on the ice floes of Canada's Atlantic coast was stained red and turned into a killing field. Tens of thousands of seal pups were killed.

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Tax Day In The US, Baby Seal Death Day In Canada

washingtonpost.com | Kathleen Parker | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Animal Rights, Animals, Seal Hunt, Canada, Hakapik, Green News

My hakapik -- a phrase I never expected to utter -- has a 42-inch long handle with a combo hammerhead/spike on the end. The hammer portion is used, th...

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Obama Calls Canadian Seal Hunt "Inhumane"

thestar.com | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Environment, Seals, Seal Hunt, Canada, Peta, Animals, Green News

"As you know, Canada annually opens its eastern waters to commercial seal hunting. The United States and European Union have been unified in their opp...

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Canada Seal Hunt Begins Amid Controversy

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Canada, Seal, Seals, Seal Hunt, Seal Hunting, European Union, Animal Rights, Norway, Russia, China, Canada Seal Hunt, Canada Seal Hunting, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Animals, World News

TORONTO — Canada's annual seal hunt started Monday, under pressure from a possible European Union ban on imported seal products. The world's la...

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Brigitte Bardot To Barack Obama: Save The Seals

AP | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Brigitte Bardot, Animals, Seals, Seal Hunting, Animal Rights, Barack Obama, Green News

PARIS — Brigitte Bardot wants President Barack Obama to save the world's seals. The French movie icon and longtime animal-rights activist has s...

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Antarctic Visitors Used To Dine On Seal Brains, Penguin Breasts

Reuters | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Eating Matters, Penguins, Animals, Antarctica, Green News

"Seal brains ... I would consider one of the delicacies and luxuries of the Antarctic, and was enjoyed by most members of the base when I was chef," t...

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Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Factory Farming, John Campbell, Chris Shays, Horses, Tom Lantos, Canada, America's Next Top Model, Prop 2, Animals, Farm Animals, Seal Hunt, Bob Filner, California, Susan Collins, Proposition 2, Nigel Barker, Carl Levin, Horse Slaughter, Elton Gallegly, Animal Cruelty, Seals, Atlantic Coast, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.

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