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James Bond Goes to Washington -- to Save the Whales

Alex Pasternack | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Congress, International Whaling Commission, Norway, Japan, Whaling, Whales, Iceland, Global Warming, Epa, Green News

Pierce Brosnan, who spoke at an EPA hearing on Monday, rhapsodized on the connection between whale protection, efforts to fight climate change and "the interconnectedness of life."

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Blue Whales Return To Former Alaska Waters

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska, Blue Whales, Environment, Endangered Species, Animals, Whales, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades af...

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WHALE STRIKE: Whale Protection Research Boat Hits Endangered Whale

Telegraph | Last Updated: 11:08PM BST 22 Apr 2009 | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Environment, Endangered Species, Whales, Animals, Right Whales, Green News

The NOAA vessel Auk was returning from a research trip when the whale surfaced about 10 feet in front of it, NOAA spokesman David Miller said....

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The Earth (Movie) Will Blow Your Mind

Jake Brewer | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Movie, Elephants, Polar Bears, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Film, Disney, Whales, Disney Nature's Earth, Green News

Earth is a stunning masterpiece that will leave even the most ardent coal lobbyist in awe of our planet and yearning to see more -- and to preserve it.

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Rare Whale Monitoriting In New York Falls Victim To Recession

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Whales, Animals, Right Whales, Economy, New York, Green News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost funding in the state's current ...

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Sonar Vs. Whales, Part Two: Florida's Atlantic Coast

AP | RON WORD | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Sonar, Military, Sonar Whales, Endangered Species, Animals, Whales, Green Politics, Right Whales, Navy, Green News

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through t...

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Police Board Vegan Pirate Vessel, Seize Video

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Australia, Animal Rights, Vegan, Whaling, Whales, Animals, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

SYDNEY — Police boarded the ship of a militant anti-whaling group and seized videotapes of violent clashes between the activists and Japanese wh...

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Sea Shepherd's, Whalers' Boat Collide In Antarctic

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Sea Shepherd, Australia, Sea Shepherd Collision, Whales, Whaling, Animals, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

SYDNEY — A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided ...

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Iceland Allows Massive Whalehunt

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

Read More: Whaling Iceland, Cod Stock, Save the Whales, International Whaling Commission, Whales, Whaling, Ecotourism, Iceland Financial Crisis, Iceland Financial Collapse, Iceland, World News

The worldwide economic crisis is now hitting Iceland harder than any other country. However, eating the country's seed corn is not the solution for our current problems.

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Plan Would Save Antarctic Whales At Expense Of Australian Whales

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Australia, International Whaling Commission, Whale Wars, Whales, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia — The International Whaling Commission may ease its ban on commercial whaling to allow Japan to hunt whales off its coast in...

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Sarah Palin Back To Work, Fights Endangered Whales

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Whales, Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, Media News

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's goin' old-school on us now, straight up messing around with Federal mandates under the Endangered Species Act by opposin...

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Sea Shepherds Offers Truce If Whalers Go To Court

Reuters | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Australia, Animal Rights, Sea Shepherd Truce Offer, Antarctica, Whaling, Animals, Whales, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

Anti-whaling activists are prepared to end aggressive protests against Japan's scientific whale cull if Australia or New Zealand agree to challenge th...

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Bush's New Marine Monuments: The Good, the Bad and Next Steps

Sarah Chasis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Dozens of scientific studies show that fully protected marine reserves have more and bigger fish than similar habitats that are fished, which makes them highly productive.

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Reflections on Graham Nash's Reflections Box Set

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Lindley, Bonnie Raitt, Air America, Bono, Madison Square Garden, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Whales, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Nicolette Larson, Rhino Entertainment, Rita Coolidge, Atlantic Records, ABC Records, Allan Clarke, Chaka Khan, Stephen Stills, Carly Simon, The Rachel Maddow Show, John Hall, Congreeman John Hall, Dan Fogelberg, The Byrds, Nuclear Power, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, David Crosby, Gil Scott-Heron, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jerry Garcia, Entertainment, Crosby Stills & Nash, Alternative Energy, Rhino, Carole King, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Crosby & Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Muse, Tom Petty, Dave Mason, Ry Cooder, New York City, New York, The Mamas & the Papas, The Grateful Dead, Rhino Records, U2, Rachel Maddow, The Doobie Brothers, Environment, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Socially-Conscious, The Hollies, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Jessie Colin Young, Csny, Raydio, Csn, Poco, Traffic, Entertainment News

Nash's trademark high harmony vocals and impressive writing talents fluidly traverse the box set's newly-mastered, 64 tracks with career highlights... and remixes galore.

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Major Turning Point in the Fight to Save Whales

Joel Reynolds | Posted 01.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Save the Whales, Natural Resources Defense Council, Marine Life, Natural Resources, Oceanic Life, Sonar Whales, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Nrdc, Environment, Mammals, Whales, Ocean, Green News

Despite mounting evidence that such sonar can kill and seriously injure marine mammals, the Navy refused to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act.

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Sonar vs. Whales: Guess Who Loses?

Cindy Letchworth | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Sonar, Supreme Court Rulings, Animals, Enviornment, Whales, Green News

With a new ruling, the Supreme Court has granted President Bush the power to exempt the U.S. Navy from environmental laws which curb the use of long range sonar in the North Pacific.

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Whale Poop Analyzed For Clues To Orca Decline

AP | PHUONG LE | Posted 01.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Species, Puget Sound, Whale Poop, Whales, Animals, Poop, Green News

SEATTLE — Using a trained dog to sniff for poop and petri dishes attached to long poles, scientists are analyzing killer whales' scat and breath...

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Ask E. Jean: How Oprah Can Lose that 40 Pounds

E. Jean Carroll | Posted 01.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Skinny, Oprah Winfrey, Diet Tips, Oprah, Gayle King, Fat, Holiday Diet, Whales, Diet, Ask E. Jean, E. Jean Carroll, E. Jean, Style News

Let's do it, Oprah. The $40 billion-a-year diet industry has used you in their stupid ads long enough!

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Daryl Hannah Joins Conservationist Pirates, Prepares For Battle With Japanese

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: SS Steve Irwin, Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson, Illegal Whaling, Environment, Daryl Hannah, Pirates, Whaling, Animals, Whales, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherds, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia — A radical conservationist said Wednesday he will not shy away from violent confrontation with Japanese whalers, even thoug...

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Rescued Whales Successfully Join Pod In Deep Waters

AP | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Australia, Beached Whales, Rescued Whales, Animals, Whales, Green News

HOBART, Australia — A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters _ a sign they are doing fine afte...

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NOAA(H) and the Whales

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Noaa, Whales, U.S. Supreme Court, Sonar, California, Oceans, Navy, Animals, Green News

Pity the poor whale. All it wants is to peacefully swim in the ocean. Instead it finds itself caught up in a net of litigation and rule-making processes.

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A Narrow Decision Against Whales

Carl Pope | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Supreme Court, Sonar, Navy, Whales, Politics News

San Francisco -- The Supreme Court ruled this week that the Navy may proceed with its sonar training programs without complying with several important...

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Whales, Whales and Wails

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Bill Clinton, Whales, Democrats, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

When Clinton came to office, all good economic news under his leadership was assigned by right-wing ideologues to the policies of Ronald Regan, which were said to finally be coming into their own.

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"Whale Wars" Show Delivers Green, Vegan Pirate Action

Dave Burdick | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Sea Shepherd, Whaling, Whales, Pirates, Paul Watson, Green News

Captain Paul Watson and crew sail about, seeking out the whaling ships, which they follow and harass in hopes of saving whales from what they believe is needless, illegal killing for commercial purposes.

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Palin Loses Attempt to Block Protection of Alaska's Whales

Janet Ritz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Interior Department, The Environmentalist, Center for Biological Diversity, Noaa, Beluga Whales, Sarah Palin, Green News, Environment, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Alaska, Whales, Politics, Bush Administratione Endangered Species, Endangered Animals, Animals, Green News

Palin had opposed the endangered listing for beluga whales in part by questioning the science and saying the listings would hinder oil and natural gas drilling.

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