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Australia says whaling feud will not hurt Japan defence pact Sydney (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 
Australia's disagreement with Japan over its annual whale hunts will not affect a proposed defence pact between the nations, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Wednesday.
Smith said Australia's opposition to Japan's slaughter of whales would not stand in the way of plans to allow the two countries' militaries to share food, fuel and other supplies and services during foreign operations.
... read moreAmid whaling row, Japan MPs question Australia defence bill 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 19, 2010Japanese ruling party lawmakers have questioned a plan to sign a defence logistics accord with Australia as the two countries are at loggerheads over Japan's annual whale hunts, an official said Tuesday. The move comes as anti-whaling activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been harassing a Japanese whaling fleet on its annual hunt for hundreds of the sea mammals in Antarctic ... more
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Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm
Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans Two dead as storms, floods hit Turkey's south: report China says it has 6,000 captive tigers Baltic leaders under pressure to save sick sea China points to farms as major pollution risk Amnesty calls for halt to Vedanta's India mine plans 
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Minke Whales Not Eating Too Much
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2010Genetic analyses refute the hypothesis that an overly abundant population of minke whales is creating too much competition over food for populations of other whale species to rebound, according to a new study supported by the Lenfest Ocean Program and published this week in the journal Molecular Ecology. The study's findings indicate that the Southern Ocean minke whale population around An ... more More than 125 whales die in New Zealand strandings 
Nelson, New Zealand (AFP) Dec 28, 2009More than 125 whales have died in two separate strandings in New Zealand, conservation officials said Monday. At Farewell Spit, west of the South Island tourist town of Nelson, 105 long-finned pilot whales died in a mass beaching on Saturday, while 21 pilot whales died Sunday at a beach on the east coast of the North Island. Both areas have a history of whale strandings. Conservation ... more Pitch Of Blue Whale Songs Is Declining Around The World 
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2009The sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to attract potential mates has been steadily creeping downward for the past few decades, and a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his colleagues believe the trend may be good news for the population of the endangered marine mammal. Mark McDonald of WhaleAcoustics in Bellvue ... more Alaska businesses fret beluga protections 
Anchorage, Alaska (UPI) Dec 2, 2009 Leaders of the business community in Alaska say they have concerns about a proposed protected habitat for beluga whales in Cook Inlet. They say the proposal may crimp maritime commerce and resource-development projects along the coast of the waterway. U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, told the Anchorage Daily News the proposal announced by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric A ... more |
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Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys, warn scientists
Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2009Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday. Lucia Di Iorio of Zurich University, Switzerland, and Christopher Clark, an acoustics specialist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in New York, recorded the calls of blue whales at a feeding ... more Japanese town starts dolphin hunt under global spotlight 
Taiji, Japan (AFP) Sept 11, 2009To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt. Every year, crews in motorboats here have rounded up about 2,000 of the sea mammals, banged metal poles to herd them into a small, rocky cove and killed them with harpoons, sparing a few dozen for sale to ... more Dolphins Get A Lift From Delta Wing Technology 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009We can only marvel at the way that dolphins, whales and porpoises scythe through water. Their finlike flippers seem perfectly adapted for maximum aquatic agility. However, no one had ever analysed how the animals' flippers interact with water; the hydrodynamic lift that they generate, the drag that they experience or their hydrodynamic efficiency. Laurens Howle and Paul Weber from Duke ... more Whaling ban holds as conference ends in disarray
Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 25, 2009The International Whaling Commission's annual conference ended in disarray Thursday, keeping in place a ban on commercial whaling amid deep rifts between hunters and conservationists. The commission's new chairman said the IWC should now question its role as the conference on the Portuguese island of Madeira wrapped up a day early with delegates agreeing only to extend negotiations on whaling ... more |
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