Whale stranding toll soars in Australia
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Marine biologist Dr Rosemary Gales inspects a dead dolphin 29 November 2004 on King Island in Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves.
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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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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where
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People fishing for sport are doing far more damage to US marine fish stocks than anyone thought, accounting for nearly a quarter of the
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Dozens of whales and dolphins mysteriously beached themselves on an Australian island on Sunday, state government officials said. Some 72 pilot whales and 30 bottle nose dolphins died at Sea Elephant Bay on
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Australian scientists predicted four months ago that climate patterns could trigger mass strandings of marine mammals around the Southern Ocean.
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Nov. 30, 2004 - Rescuers succeeded Tuesday in saving most of the whales stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand in the past days as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of the increased beachings.
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A microscopic fungus native to Australia and blamed for the death of people and animals in British Columbia is now linked to the deaths of porpoises and at least one cat in Washington state.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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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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At least 22 pilot whales beached themselves on the coast early Saturday, and at least 17 of them died, officials said.
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Military exercises planned by  Australia and the United States next month off the Australian  coast could result in large-scale whale deaths or injuries, the  International Whaling Commission said.
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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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BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): The death toll from Sundayâs tidal wave disaster climbed to more than 67,000 yesterday and experts warned that disease epidemics from rotting corpses, smashed sewers and contaminated water could double the figure.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.
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As more and more bodies are being swept ashore, the death toll due to Sundayâs tsunami waves is rising fast along the south-eastern coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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Australia's government has released graphic photographs and video footage a whales being harpooned and dragged aboard a Japanese ship