Island fears over 'trawler rats'
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Concerns are raised that the trawler which ran aground on St Kilda could carry rats, posing a threat to sea birds.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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By M. Husairy Othman  PULAU PANGKOR: The last remaining traditional fishing village here is under threat from rapid development on the island.  About 70 families in Kampung Teluk Dalam live in fear of being displaced.
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Each day at 4 p.m., the trawlers come back, alive with giant bass, mackerel and squirming eels, at the end of a food chain that links family dinner tables to poisons in the sea. Besides mercury which can damage the brains of fetuses and young children and can affect healthy adults, there are PCBs, dioxins and flame retardants with unknown long-term effects.
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There's something fishy afoot in the world of Dutch herring.
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I have seen some warnings about hijiki seaweed as a possible source of high levels of arsenic. How alarmed should I be?
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Fears are growing for a Co Tyrone man who is thought to have been on the Thai island of Phi Phi when the tsunami struck.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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A search is being made around Maria Island on Tasmania&#39;s east coast to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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Details of disagreement emerge over threat posed by two British residents held in GuantÃ¡namo Bay
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Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants -- humans.
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The Florida Keys, already dealing with invasive exotics from melaleuca to iguanas, have added another to the list of unwanted newcomers: the African Gambian pouch rat.
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MEXICO CITY - Atascaderos' rats ran out the cats, sniffed at poison and scared off bounty hunters. Now villagers are just going to have to live with them, say officials in the northern state of Chihuahua.
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Excerpt from report by Mwinyi Sadallah entitled "Unguja and Pemba islands threatened with..." published by Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian website on 6 June  Zanzibar government has cautioned that the islands of Unguja and Pemba are likely to be submerged due to global glacier melting.
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A mass pig hunt on the Indonesian island of Sumatra threatens tigers and other rare wildlife, campaigners fear.
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SCOTLANDâS beleaguered white-fish fleet was last night facing another end-of-year battle for economic survival in the face of a European Commission demand for trawling to be outlawed in more than 10,000 square miles of the North Sea and west-coast waters
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As the rising sun danced across Florida's coastal waters, government workers in shorts and T-shirts knelt in a grassy island field and plucked wriggling rats from traps laid the night before. These weren't just any rats. They were 3-pound, 35-inch-long African behemoths. They squirmed as the workers, wearing protective gloves, removed green radio collars that had been tracking the rodents' movements.