Once-Stranded Whales Apparently Return to Safer Waters
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More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have found their way home Wednesday.
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Two humpback whales that swam from the Pacific Ocean far up into central California&#39;s inland waterways appear to be heading back toward open ocean, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
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By Julia Chan  KOTA KINABALU: It seemed like a happy ending. The crowds cheered as the Bryde's whale swam away from Pulau Gaya on Friday. And everyone assumed it had survived its ordeal because marine patrol officers didn't spot it again.  But it was not to be.
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ENSENADA, Mexico  - For years, Cristina Imana has  gazed out from her clifftop porch near the Mexican resort town  of Ensenada and watched migrating gray whales roll around with  their babies in the glistening surf below.
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers refloated another 15 and monitored their progress toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.But marine scientist Steve McCulloch immediately saw this rescue was unique.
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An oil spill near a fragile wildlife reserve off Alaska, unleashed when a freighter snapped in two last week, appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said Monday.
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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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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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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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Washington state'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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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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A humpback whale and her calf that have captivated the San Francisco Bay area for two weeks made progress in finding their way back to open waters.  Late Tuesday night, the U.S.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO -- Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean Sunday after lingering for a week about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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Some whale populations are on the rebound. Can they be both protected and eaten?
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Repair crews have restarted the main engine of a Japanese whaling ship crippled by a fire a week ago near Antarctica, but the vessel has not yet moved under its own power, an official said today.