Greenland whale plan deadlocked
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Greenland's plan to expand its whale hunt causes deadlock at an annual whaling conference in Alaska.
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Experts could not determine what killed a 40-foot-long whale that washed ashore at Seal Rock last weekend.
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A breakthrough on the climate change deadlock is being sought at a meeting between US politicians and international legislators.
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Two endangered Atlantic right whales have been spotted tangled in lines off the coast of the Carolinas, and the crews of ships in the area have been asked to look for them.
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Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.
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The International Whaling Commission has failed to resolve the increasingly heated debate over Japan's whaling program and needs to be thoroughly reformed, organizers of a conference on the dispute said Friday.
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A Royal Dutch/Shell -led group developing oil and gas fields in the Russian far east moved to assure worried ecologists on Friday it is doing all it can to protect rare gray whales living in the coastal waters.
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For the last 12 years, a single solitary whale whose vocalizations match no known living species has been tracked across the Northeast Pacific. Its wanderings match no known migratory patterns of any living whale species. Its vocalizations have also subtly deepened over the years, indicating that the whale is maturing and ageing. And, during the entire 12 year span that it has been tracked, it has been calling out for contact from others of its own kind.  It has received no answer. Nor will it ever.
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There are no easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land mammal in check.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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Killer whales in the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound should be protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, government scientists said on Thursday.
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Japan has "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.
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Everyone seems to have a suggestion to get two wayward whales lingering in the Sacramento River to swim 70 miles back to the Pacific Ocean. One person suggested towing life-sized replicas of orcas behind the whales to scare the recalcitrant mother humpback and her calf. Another proposed placing a giant magnet downriver, since humpbacks are thought to navigate by an internal compass that can sense magnetic north.
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Sixteen months ago, a federal agency proposed slowing ships in certain East Coast waters to 10 knots or less during parts of the year to save the North Atlantic right whale, one of the world's most endangered marine mammals, from extinction.
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Delegates at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting look for harmony rather conflict.
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Japan offered a compromise on Monday to break an impasse over its controversial plan to lift a 20-year moratorium of commercial whale hunting but it was flatly rejected by the other key powers.
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Some of Greenland's residents want independence and full rights to the island's natural resources. Will they get it?