Large ships could threaten lost whales
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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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Nearly 100,000 or more gray whales once thrived in the Pacific Ocean, greatly outnumbering today&#39;s population, a new study suggests.
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Veterinarians tracking two whales lost in the Sacramento River swabbed samples from raised blotches on their skin Sunday as efforts to prod the mother and calf back to the ocean dragged into a third week.
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It's probably too late to save a small pod of killer whales whose numbers plummeted after the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
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The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.
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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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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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It wasn't until the U.S. cruise ship had pulled into port in Atlantic Canada that those on board made a gruesome discovery -- the body of a large whale was impaled on the vessel's bow.
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN RIO VISTA, Calif. - Everyone seems to have a suggestion to get two wayward whales lingering in the Sacramento River to swim 70 miles back to the Pacific Ocean.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- As autumn wanes and North Atlantic right whales again migrate to calving grounds off the Southeast coast, humans will determine the fate of the majestic creatures hunted almost to extinction in centuries past.
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The number of beluga whales swimming in Cook Inlet appears to be increasing, but biologist say it's too soon to know whether the winsome white whales are finally making a comeback.
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Environmental campaigner Greenpeace said a stricken Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast had asked its protest ship Esperanza to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
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Hunting is not the only threat to whales and dolphins, and many governments need to take these other threats seriously.
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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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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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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