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Top UN court orders Japan to end Antarctic whale hunt

Mar 31, 2014 (AFP)

The United Nations' top court on Monday ordered Japan to end its annual Antarctic whale hunt, saying in a landmark ruling that the programme was a commercial ac...

Cuvier's beaked whales set new breath-hold diving records

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists monitored Cuvier's beaked whales' record-breaking dives to depths of nearly two miles below the ocean surface and some dives lasted for over two hour...

Top UN court to rule on legality of Japan whale hunt

Mar 28, 2014 (AFP)

The UN's top court will rule Monday whether Japan has the right to hunt whales in the Antarctic, in an emotive case activists say is make-or-break for the giant...

Passive Acoustic Monitoring Reveals Clues to Minke Whale Calling Behavior

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists using passive acoustic monitoring to track minke whales in the Northwest Atlantic have found clues in the individual calling behaviors and movements ...

Fossil porpoise has a chin for the ages

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient porpoise with a chin length unprecedented among known mammals and suggest the animal used the tip of its fac...

Whales, ships more common through Bering Strait

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

The Arctic is home to a growing number of whales and ships, and to populations of sub-Arctic whales that are expanding their territory into newly ice-free Arcti...

Sea Shepherd claims Japan whalers attacked its vessels

Mar 03, 2014 (AFP)

Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd claimed Monday that Japanese whalers attacked its vessels in the Southern Ocean, and accused the Australian government...

Kitty litter parasite infects Arctic beluga whales

Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)

A parasite that is found in cats and can cause brain disease, blindness and miscarriage in people has been found for the first time in Arctic beluga whales, sci...

Satellites help spot whales

Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have demonstrated how new satellite technology can be used to count whales, and ultimately estimate their population size. Using Very High Resolution...

New Zealand hauls in Japan ambassador over whaling row

Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)

New Zealand on Monday called in Tokyo's ambassador to protest about a Japanese whaling ship entering its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), escalating a diplomatic ...

Whales and human-related activities overlap in African waters

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Oregon State University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and the American Museum of Natural History...

US hits Iceland on whaling, looks at sanctions

Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)

The United States said Thursday that Iceland was violating an international agreement through its whaling, opening the possibility of economic sanctions over th...

Researchers discover rare new species of deep-diving whale

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have identified a new species of mysterious beaked whale based on the study of seven animals stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and P...

'Severe reduction' in killer whale numbers during last Ice Age

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

genome sequencing has revealed a global fall in the numbers of killer whales during the last Ice Age, at a time when ocean productivity may have been widely red...

400 dolphins dead on Peru beaches

Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)

The bodies of around 400 dolphins washed up on beaches in northern Peru last month, baffling authorities who are so far mystified as to the cause, officials sai...

Japan asks Netherlands to act against anti-whalers

Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)

Japan on Monday said it was asking the Netherlands to take "practical measures" against a Dutch-registered vessel that collided with a Japanese whaling ship in ...

Anti-whalers claim 'aggressive' ramming by Japanese

Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)

Militant anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd said one of their ships was rammed Sunday during "aggressive" and "unprovoked" confrontations with the Japanese i...

Dolphins in 'bad shape' after BP oil spill: study

Feb 01, 2014 (AFP)

Bottlenose dolphins with missing teeth, lung disease, and abnormal hormone levels were found swimming in the Gulf of Mexico a year after the BP oil spill, US re...

Campaigners rally against Japan's dolphin hunting

Jan 24, 2014 (AFP)

Activists protesting against Japan's indigenous dolphin hunting held a rally in Tokyo Friday, calling on officials to stop sales of the marine mammals to aquari...

Fishermen kill 30 more dolphins in Taiji: activists

Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)

Fishermen in the small Japanese town of Taiji killed more than two dozen striped dolphins on Thursday, campaigners said, as global outrage over the slaughter gr...