Crippled Whaling Ship Poses Antarctic Threat
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A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds Friday, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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Science & environment: Sea Shepherd abandons direct action against Japanese whalers in Antarctic as ship runs low on fuel
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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Australia's newly-elected government risks damaging political and trade ties with Tokyo if it uses the military to monitor Japanese whaling in Antarctic, the opposition said Friday.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to prevent a stricken whaler from polluting Antarctic waters by accepting an embarrassing offer of help from a Greenpeace anti-whaling protest ship.
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An anti-whaling group's boat and a Japanese whale-spotting vessel collided in Antarctic waters Monday during violent clashes over a pod of whales, conservationists and Japanese officials said.
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The disabled Japanese whaling ship stricken in Antarctic waters sails briefly under its own steam.
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An Australian customs vessel heads south to Antarctica to monitor activities of the Japanese whaling fleet.
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New Zealand authorities are waiting for crew aboard a crippled Japanese whaling ship to decide whether they need to be towed out of the area, or will remain and continue whaling.
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A Japanese whaling ship sends up a distress signal after colliding with a protest boat in the Antarctic.
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Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru and six other whaling ships face opposition from The Sea Shepherd's vessel Farley Mowat and Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise. Environmentalists claim this whaling is illegal and destructive, while Japan claims it is scientific research.
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A Japanese whaling ship stranded in Antarctic waters was on an even keel Saturday after pumps cleared water used to douse the fire that crippled it, a government official said.
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By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent  There are fears of an environmental disaster in the unspoilt waters off Antarctica after fire broke out on board a Japanese whaling ship, leaving it adrift near penguin breeding grounds.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds today, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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A Japanese whaling ship that drifted powerless for nine days near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground had posed a huge risk to the pristine Antarctic environment, New Zealand's prime minister said Monday.
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U.S. ships have delivered food, fuel and equipment to Antarctic science bases, despite fears they would not be able to pass through the ice pack formed behind the world's largest iceberg, officials said Thursday.