Shipping lanes into Boston moved to protect whales
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Ships steaming into Boston harbor will soon shift course to avoid whales in the first change of U.S. shipping lanes to protect an endangered species.
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The Bush administration is making headway with other nations in setting new global standards to reduce dangerous emissions from giant diesel-burning ships that are polluting U.S. ports, a senior environmental official said Thursday. An emergency room physician described a "diesel death zone" around major U.S. seaports, with higher cancer rates and other health risks.
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A new network of sensors will detail how ecological threats to the waterway affect the seacoast.
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Two lost whales last spotted near the Golden Gate Bridge may have slipped back into the Pacific Ocean after a two-week sojourn that took them 90 miles inland up the Sacramento River, scientists said Wednesday.
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Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean on Sunday after lingering for a week near a bridge about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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BOSTON -- The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the f
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The move concentrates one of the company's four major business lines in the city and seeks to reassure Massachusetts officials that it is committed to the Northeast.
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Wildlilfe authorities in Australia are concerned by the beaching of dozens of whales in two separate incidents in waters off the state of Tasmania.
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Washington state&#39;s resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 21--The legal battle over ballast water from oceangoing ships escalated Thursday as eight environmental groups started a lawsuit against shippers under the national Clean Water Act.
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The city of Boston last night abruptly changed the route of this morning&#39;s Red Sox victory parade, creating a new leg that will take the team up the Charles River aboard duck boats and expand the viewing area to include the Esplanade and the Cambridge
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River were spotted Tuesday morning just beyond a bridge where they had stopped a day earlier, a delay that worried scientists hoping to get them back to the ocean.
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30 -- Some days, killer whales just wake up on the wrong side of the pool.
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THE REGION CMA CGM, the world's third-biggest container ship company, will begin service to the Conley Terminal in South Boston every other Thursday starting Dec. 7, the Massachusetts Port Authority said. The move will increase total container-shipping business to Boston's port by 4 to 5 percent annually and will also offer the first direct-shipping service between Boston and two European ...
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The Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday preliminarily approved a $45 million freight container handling facility that would be a modern gateway to the Boston Marine Industrial Park in South Boston.
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River encouraged biologists Monday by making progress toward their ocean home, but then abruptly halted their journey at a busy bridge.
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As water levels in the Great Lakes fall, ships that ferry bulk materials across them must lighten their loads, adding millions to shipping companiesâ operating costs.