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20 Beached Pilot Whales Die On New Zealand Beach; 43 Others Coaxed Back To Sea

AP | Posted 12.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Colville Beach, Pilot Whales, Beached Whales, New Zealand, Animals, Whales, Beachings, Green News

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Twenty pilot whales died on a New Zealand beach after stranding but holiday-makers and conservation workers Sunday man...

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Exploding Whale Video Reporter Looks Back Four Decades Later

asylum.com | Danny Gallagher | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Whales, Animals, Explosions, Sea Life, Animal Videos, Green News

For Oregon journalist Paul Linnman, covering a story about blowing up a giant sperm whale with a ton of dynamite was just another day on the beat. Lit...

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Whale-Penis Leather SUV Seats: Pamela Anderson Protests Dartz Pombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition SUV

wired.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Cars, Animal Rights, Whale Penis Leather, Whales, Whale Penis SUV, Suvs, Green News

What's the world coming to when you can get your $1.45 million bulletproof SUV with gold trim, a ridiculously expensive Vertu cellphone and three bott...

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Cartman Sings "Poker Face" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Cartman, Dolphins, Cartman Singing Poker Face, Cartman Poker Face, Rock Band, Cartman Sings Poker Face, Poker Face, Lady GaGa, Sings, Whales, South Park, Comedy News

If you watched last Wednesday's South Park you probably noticed Cartman's amazing performance of "Poker Face" in between all the dolphin and whale sla...

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Bryant Austin's Stunning Whale Photography (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Slidepoll, Humpback Whale, Sperm Whales, Endangered Species, Bryant Austin, Animals, Whales, Whale, Photography, Animal Photos, Green News

Marine Mammal Conservation Through The Arts is producing a documentary about Bryant Austin, a photographer whose life-size photographs of endangered w...

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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

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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Director Dan Stone Brings The Battle to Save The Whales to Us

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Environment, Whales, Dan Stone, Ecology, At the Edge of the World, Conservation, Dolphins, Cetaceans, New York News

Stone discusses his documentary At The Edge of The World, screened tonight at the HBO Theatre. It's the true story of a David-like struggle to stop the unnecessary and egregious hunting of whales.

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Japan: Thousands Of Dolphins Killed As Hunting Season Returns

Global Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Japan Fisherman, Japan Whales, Dolphins, Taiji, Bottlenose-Dolphins, Dolphins Killed in Japan, Fisherman, Fishing Villages, Bottlenose Dolphins, Japan Dolphins, Whales, Illegal-Fishing, Overfishing, Japan, Animals, World News

TAIJI, Japan �" Taiji reveals its Janus face as soon as you emerge from the road tunnel on the town's periphery. Bottlenoses leap out of the water i...

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Moby-Sick

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Gilligan's Island, Boat, Seasickness, Herman Melville, Atlantic Ocean, Whales, Humor, Japan, Living News

"Seasickness is mostly mind over matter," said Capt. Joe, adding that he used to get sick as a boy when he went on fishing trips with his father and uncles. "You grow out of it."

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Heading to Rhode Island Tomorrow in Support of a National Oceans Policy

Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Taskforce, Economy, Atlantic Ocean, Obama Administration, Offshore Wind, Rhode Island, Whales, Healthy Oceans Policy, Offshore Renewables, Healthy Oceans, Great Lakes, New York Obama, Marine Spatial Planning, National Oceans Policy, Oceans, Fisheries, Providence, Green News

A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.

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Killer Whales Are Screaming To Be Heard Over Ship Noise

treehugger.com | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Marine Life, Animals, Whales, Ships and Whales, Killer Whales, Green News

Researchers have found that because of nearby ship noise, killer whales are having to make louder sounds to be able to communicate with one another....

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Beached Whale Dies Near Miami, Baby Whale In Distress

AP | J. PAT CARTER | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Beached Whales, Whale Miami, Animals, Whales, Miami, Green News

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Rescuers failed in a frantic bid to save a mother whale and her baby after the pair ran aground off a South Florida beach Mond...

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A World Without Whales?

Philippe Cousteau | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Whales, Jacques Cousteau, Environment, Alexandra Cousteau, Conservation, Ocean Acidification, Philippe Cousteau, Oceans, Discovery Planet Green, Green News

The work of my grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, laid the groundwork for most of what we know about the marine world. Now, ocean acidification could spell the end of oceans as we know them.

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Heath Ledger's Green Video For Modest Mouse

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Modest Mouse King Rat, Modest Mouse, Eco Systems, Protecting Eco Systems, Green Living, Whales, Sharks, Marine Life, King Rat, Conserving Marine Line, Modest Mouse Video, Heath Ledger Video, Heath Ledger, Green News

The much-awaited Modest Mouse video for "King Rat" directed by Heath Ledger has been released today. And the video is an incredible look at what would...

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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

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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Mighty Movie Podcast: Flipper Agonists: Louie Psihoyos on The Cove

Dan Persons | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

In Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into an isolated cove. The best get sold to sea parks and aquariums, the rest are killed for their meat. The Cove exposes the atrocity to the world.

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Whale Saves Drowning Diver, Pulls Her To Surface

foxnews.com | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Diver, Whales Save Diver, Whales and Diver, Whales, Animals, Green News

A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth. ...

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Threatened Whale Impaled On Cruise Ship (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Whale Impaled, Whale Ships, Video, Threatened Whales, Whales, Whale Impaled on Ships, Green News

An approximately 70 foot long threatened fin whale was found impaled on the bow of a Princess Cruise Line ship that had been sailing from Alaska to Ca...

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Eating Fish, Eating What?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Wild Salmon, Fish Market, Pcbs, Mercury Poisoning, Whales, Toxins, Fish Farming, Sea, Fish, Sushi, Fishing, Tuna, Fisheries, Green News

The average consumer is so uninformed about fish that looking through the glass case and pointing is like hitting a button on a vending machine with signage in a foreign language.

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PET A WHALE! Shedd Aquarium Charging $200 To Play With Belugas

Chicago Tribune | William Mullen | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Beluga Encounter, Shedd Beluga Whales, Shedd Aquarium Whales, Shedd Aquarium, Whales, Animals, Chicago News

Visitors now can touch one of the Shedd Aquarium's prized beluga whales, but it comes with a price: $200. ...

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The Mysterious World Of Whales

nytimes.com | CHARLES SIEBERT | Posted 08.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Marine Life, Sonar Whales, Whales, Animals, Green News

On the afternoon of Sept. 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists vacationing on Isla San Jose, in Baja California Sur, Mexico, came upon a couple of w...

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Whale Hunting Sought By Denmark

The Copenhagen Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: International Whaling Commission, Humpback Whale, Whale Meat, Whaling Quota, Whaling, Green, Fin Whale Hunting, Fin Whales, Whales, Fin Whale, Whale Hunting, Denmark, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Denmark Whaling Quota, Animal, Animals, World News

At the annual International Whaling Commission meeting this week, Denmark has applied to include humpback whales in the hunting quota for Greenland D...

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Iceland Is New Front In Whale Wars

nytimes.com | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Whaling in Iceland, Iceland Whaling, Whales, Iceland, Whaling Wars, Whale Wars, Green News

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has ...

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I Wasn't Ready to Drown, So I Prepared to Abandon Ship

Ashley Dunn | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Whale Wars, Whaling, Whales, Sea-Shepherds, Sea Shepherds, Green News

In a war situation, the unwritten law is that cameramen are neutral and "off limits" to soldiers. In this battle, the whalers saw the crew of Whale Wars as fair game.

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Feds Crack Down On Sperm Whale Teeth Traffickers

New York | By Camille Dodero (1:16PM 05/27) | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Sperm Whales, Endangered Species, Sperm Whale Teeth, Animals, Whales, Scrimshaw, Green News

Sperm whales are an endangered species, and therefore protected by the Endangered Species Act. That doesn't mean you can't import them -- you just nee...

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