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<title>Pollution stunts Canada's beluga whales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[His team analysed the carcasses of beluga over 15 years and estimates that the traces in the fat of the whale of chemicals banned in the 1980s have fallen little -- in fact, they remain "still very significant."]]></description>
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<title>Young Whale Found in New York Harbor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The animal, described as a juvenile minke whale about 15 feet long, was cruising around Gowanus Bay, the outlet from the mile-long Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It appeared to be in good health and not distressed, said Kim Durham, rescue program director for the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.]]></description>
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<title>Scientists Enlist Nature's Divers to Sample Icy Sea</title>
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<description><![CDATA["They basically collect data all the way down on their dive profile, and on the way back," Laidre said last month before she left for Greenland. "Nobody has done any research on narwhals out there, and this will be really interesting."]]></description>
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<title>Whales surface in Tuscany</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Make sure that Tuscan wine is whale-free: The 10-metre fossils, the biggest found in Italy, date from four to five million years ago when the region sat on the sea bed. "This is a spectacular find," said Elisabetta Cioppi, a palaeontologist at the University of Florence, of the most recent discovery of a whale fossil just 50cm below ground level in a wheat field near Orciano Pisano. ]]></description>
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<title>Pentagon: Navy can keep using sonar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bizarre ruling ... The Defense Department gave the Navy permission Tuesday to keep training with sonar for another two years, a move denounced by activists who say the sound waves can harm dolphins and other marine mammals.]]></description>
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<title>Alaska cruise ship arrives with dead whale on bow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was tentatively identified as a humpback, an endangered species, and towed by a tugboat Saturday afternoon to a nearby beach. A necropsy has been sched]]></description>
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<title>Ancient whale 'truly weird'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 25-million-year-old whale fossil from southeastern Australia has revealed a bizarre early type of 'baleen' whale. The creature was an ancient cousin of our modern blue whales and humpbacks, but it was hardly a gentle giant of the sea. Instead it was small and predatory, with enormous eyes and teeth.

"It's almost like a whale from outer space: truly weird," says study author Erich Fitzgerald of Monash University in Clayton, Australia. "In overall appearance and lifestyle, it looks more like a modern leopard seal."]]></description>
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<title>Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's largest naval war games will go on as planned, with the 35 warships from the United States and seven Pacific Rim countries allowed to use active sonar. Yesterday, a federal court in California approved a settlement that requires safeguards, including a 25-mile sonar-free buffer zone around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument recently created by President Bush, and significant increases in monitoring for marine mammals during sonar drills.]]></description>
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<title>Right Whales Get 36,750 Square Miles to Call Their Own</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The federal rule published Thursday designates some 36,750 square miles in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska as critical habitat for right whales. The rule takes effect Aug. 7.]]></description>
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<title>Court halts Navy use of sonar over whale issue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A federal judge temporarily blocked the Navy on Monday from using active sonar during a major multinational exercise off Hawaii until it can negotiate with environmentalists who say the sonar would harm whales.]]></description>
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<title>Judge temporarily bars Navy use of sonar that may harm whales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The temporary restraining order, sought by environmentalists, came three days after the Defense Department granted the Navy a six-month exemption from certain federal laws protecting marine species to allow use of the "mid-frequency active sonar.'' The Navy's failure to take a "hard look'' at the environmental impact of war games was an "arbitrary and capricious'' violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote.]]></description>
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<title>Pentagon exempts Navy from whale protection law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon on Friday exempted the Navy for six months from a law protecting whales and other marine mammals, a move that may allow planned naval exercises using military sonar to proceed despite a lawsuit. "The Navy will continue to employ stringent mitigation measures to protect marine mammals during all sonar activities, to include habitat controls, safety zones around ships, trained lookouts, extra precautions during chokepoint exercises, in coordination with National Marine Fisheries Service," said Rear Adm. James Symonds, director of environmental readiness.]]></description>
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<title>Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.]]></description>
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<title>Mass whale deaths tied to U.S. Navy sonar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy's deployment of active sonar to detect submarine activity is believed to have been responsible for at least six incidents of mass death and unusual behavior among pods of whales in the last 10 years, according to a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service report.]]></description>
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<title>Study fails to link naval sonar with whale strandings</title>
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<description><![CDATA["We cannot assign a causal relationship between the use of sonar and the stranding," says Brandon Southall, head of acoustics programs at the National Marine Fisheries Service.]]></description>
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