Call to end deep sea "plunder"
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Fuel subsidies that allow trawlers to "plunder" vulnerable fish stocks should be scrapped, claim leading scientists.
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Fishermen who were allowed to take unused  war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, &quot;salvaging&quot;  fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam&#39;s Internet and  other international communications.
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A coalition of marine scientists has launched a campaign to halt Japan's annual "dolphin drive," in which thousands of bottlenose dolphins are herded into shallow coves to be slaughtered with knives and clubs.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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By Angela Haupt  In  just three hours one day last September, volunteers scouring international coastlines and waterways collected more than 7 million pounds of trash -- about the same as the weight of 30 blue whales.
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MAXINE WATERS. I write to urge you to take immediate action to protect the life of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Saint Claire Church in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as
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The next terrorist threat may come from the deep. In recent years, several homeland security alerts have focused on the danger of scuba-equipped terrorists targeting docked Navy vessels or ocean-side nuclear plants. Now the U.S. military is quietly developing a new generation of underwater weaponry.
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An environmental coalition is calling for a halt on international ships entering the U.S. Great Lakes.
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Microscopic plastic debris could be poisoning the world's oceans, according to a British team of scientists.
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Fuel subsidies allowing trawlers to "plunder" vulnerable fish stocks should be scrapped, scientists say.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Mar. 8--Any region that gets deluged like we did late last week is going to find parts of itself under water.
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The United Nations needs to stop the destruction of deep sea ecosystems by banning fishermen from trawling nets on the ocean floor, Australia, New Zealand and Palau, joined by actress Sigourney Weaver, said on Tuesday.
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Quick! Send choppers to get everybody off that North Sea oil rig! -- Oh, um, never mind.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from coastal states introduced legislation Thursday calling for removal of the thousands of tons of ocean debris that wash up on U.S. shores each year.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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Club of sovereign lenders next meets on January 20 and it hopes it will free up more funds for reconstruction. The proposal came amid concerns over ballooning costs of reconstruction from the tsunami that killed over 45,000 people in Indonesia.
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By Anonymous  A rising tide of sewage is threatening the health and wealth of far too many of the world's seas and oceans, says a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).