Crews still working on Japanese whaler
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Repair crews failed Tuesday to restart the engine of a crippled Japanese whaler but were not yet planning to tow the ship away from the pristine Antarctic coastline, an official said.
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Japan is confident it can secure the votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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Science & environment: One of the activists held by Japanese whalers describes his ordeal on the Yushin Maru 2
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2nd Ld-Writethru: Search for rare white-flag dolphins will still continue: scientists    WUHAN, Dec.
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A stricken Japanese whaling ship on  fire off the Antarctic coast was lashed between two other ships  on Friday to avoid drifting into ice as its crew worked to  contain a blaze below deck.
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An Australian government ship has left on a mission to track Japan's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Tokyo, an official said Wednesday.
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An ailing crewman from a Japanese whaling vessel was being treated at a New Zealand hospital under tight security because of anti-whaling sentiments, an official said Monday.
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The disabled Japanese whaling ship stricken in Antarctic waters sails again under its own steam.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The crew of the Japanese fishing boat, the Zuishe Maru 38, except the skipper, have been turned over to Japanese coastguard officials, spokesman for the Federal Security Service's Sakhalin coast guards Yevgeny Lazarev said.
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High wind gusting across the Bering Sea hampered efforts Friday to stem an oil spill from a broken freighter, and there was still no sign of six crew members lost when a rescue helicopter crashed in the turbulent waters.
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RESCUE workers will know this morning if their attempts to save whales beached yesterday on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast, were successful.
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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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A troubled cruise ship is still waiting to leave on its delayed world cruise.
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Hiroshi Kobayashi has been hunting whales for three years now. He knows just where to look, and boasts that, in season, he has a close-to-perfect record of finding them. But he's never killed one &#151; he captains a whale-watching boat for tourists. And he thinks whaling is, or should be, a thing of the past.
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TOKYO - Rescuers in Japan are still searching for 15 people missing after what the government is calling the worst typhoon to hit the islands in 25 years.