Rescue workers save 12 beached whales
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Rescuers have saved at least 12 pilot whales that beached themselves on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast. It has been an exhausting 24 hours for National Parks and Wildlife officers in Tasmania after mass strandings at Maria Island and King Island.
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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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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers have saved a  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami that devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed on Wednesday to find  her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has set up a charity to help save whales off the coast of Japan.
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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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SYDNEY - Nineteen whales died and 24 were rescued after 43 whales beached themselves on Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s southeast coast Sunday, the second beaching in Australian waters in 24 hours, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
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Five people are rescued off the north Cornwall coast after spending eight days adrift in a life raft.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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A coastal rescue team saved 34 passengers and two crew from a ferry in Devon that broke free of its guide cables in bad weather and began drifting out to sea, the coastguard said.
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Rescue teams save a whale stuck on the Lincolnshire coast after its companion died.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers saved a rare  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in  a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Science & environment: Fifteen pilot whales die mass stranding on a New Zealand beach, and 15 more are still at risk
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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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A pod of dolphins saved a group of swimmers from a predatory 10-foot great white shark off the northern New Zealand coast, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Rescuers were encouraged by the progress two lost whales have made toward their ocean home but were concerned about encounters the two might have with large ships as they near San Francisco Bay.
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Helicopters rescued 10 sailors from a French trimaran that overturned off the east coast of New Zealand on Monday.
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Eighty whales and dolphins are dead after beaching themselves on King Island in the Bass Strait, south west of mainland Australia.