Whales

125 Pilot Whales Die On New Zealand Beaches

AP | Posted 12.28.2009 | World


WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on beaches over the weekend – but vacationers and cons...

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

AP | Posted 12.28.2009 | Green


WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend – but vacationers and co...

Exploding Whale Video Reporter Looks Back Four Decades Later

asylum.com | Danny Gallagher | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green


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...

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

wired.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green


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...

Cartman Sings "Poker Face" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy


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...

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

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green


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

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

Taryn Kiekow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green


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.

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

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York


Brad Balfour

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.

Japan: Thousands Of Dolphins Killed As Hunting Season Returns

Global Post | Posted 11.25.2009 | World


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...

Moby-Sick

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Jerry Zezima

"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."

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

Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green


Sarah Chasis

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.

Killer Whales Are Screaming To Be Heard Over Ship Noise

treehugger.com | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


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....

Beached Whale Dies Near Miami, Baby Whale In Distress

AP | J. PAT CARTER | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green


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...

A World Without Whales?

Philippe Cousteau | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green


Philippe Cousteau

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.

Heath Ledger's Green Video For Modest Mouse

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green


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...

Aquatic Accommodations

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics


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.

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

Dan Persons | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment


Dan Persons

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.

Whale Saves Drowning Diver, Pulls Her To Surface

foxnews.com | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green


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

Threatened Whale Impaled On Cruise Ship (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green


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...

Eating Fish, Eating What?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green


Trey Borzillieri

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.

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

Chicago Tribune | William Mullen | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago


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

The Mysterious World Of Whales

nytimes.com | CHARLES SIEBERT | Posted 08.12.2009 | Green


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...

Whale Hunting Sought By Denmark

The Copenhagen Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


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

Iceland Is New Front In Whale Wars

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


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 ...

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

Ashley Dunn | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green


Ashley Dunn

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.