55 whales, 25 dolphins die after becoming beached on Australian ...
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A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to a beach on a southern Australian island where rescue teams Monday were desperately trying to prevent others from becoming stranded, a government official said.
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Cyclical weather patterns have driven more than 150 whales and dolphins to become stranded on Australian and New Zealand beaches since the weekend, scientists say.
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Four endangered whales have been found dead in the past six weeks &#151; including two just this week, scientists said.
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Two Great White sharks attacked and killed a teenage boy on a surfboard off a packed beach as his horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in five days.
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A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia's south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend.
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At least 55 people were killed and over 300 injured in the worst-ever storm that lashed Japan in more than a decade triggering flash floods and mudslides before it moved to the east into the Pacific Ocean this morning.
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A badly injured whale that became trapped in a sea loch has died, rescuers confirm.
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In response to worldwide criticism, Japan announces threatened humpbacks will not be killed as planned on the annual whale hunt. Its whale fleet, now in the southern Pacific off Antarctica, will kill some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
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Scientists who spent nearly a month in  a fruitless search for a Chinese river dolphin that is more  endangered than the Giant Panda say there may be no more than  50 left alive, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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More than 50 dead whales will be buried today after a mass stranding at a Coromandel beach. Seventy-three pilot whales came ashore at Opoutere beach on Sunday night.
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - At least eight people were  killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a  southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more  were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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Hundreds of thousands of native Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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KILLER tsunamis unleashed by an earthquake have wiped out more than 23,000 lives, with at least two Australians dead and 100 missing.
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Harbour porpoises are being killed in increasing numbers by bottlenose dolphins around British coasts.