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Month: May 2012
“Acoustic Impact” Indicated in Peru Dolphin Die-Off
From Mother Jones By JuliaWhitty Environmental CorrespondentJulia Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. Her latest book is Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. For more of her stories, click here. RSS | Twitter … Read More ›
Entangled Gray Whale Rescued by Fishermen
Neptune 911 LOVES GOOD NEWS. From Associated Press By JASON DEAREN and MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO May 5, 2012 (AP) Crab fisherman Mark Anello noticed something odd near his boat off the Northern California coast:… Read More ›
Yangstze Porpoises “face enormous challenges”
Six years after the Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), or baiji, was declared “functionally extinct” by scientists, another marine mammal appears on the edge of extinction in China’s hugely degraded Yangtze River. In less than two months, 32 Yangtze finless… Read More ›
Dead & Entangled Gray Whale Stories: 2012
Whale found dead in Wash. had swallowed golf ball Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/25/2042347/whale-found-dead-in-wash-had-swallowed.html#storylink=cpy Dead gray whale washes ashore near San Simeon Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/23/2040436/dead-gray-whale-washes-ashore.html#storylink=cpy Lost whale spotted, rescuers wait for opportunity Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041883/lost-whale-spotted-rescuers-wait.html#storylink=cpy California Gray Whale Entangled:… Read More ›
New Research: Plastics in Ocean “Scarier” Than Expected
From California Watch The cause célèbre of plastic litter in the ocean is the Texas-sized, swirling island of plastic debris thousands of miles off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean. But researchers from the Universities of Washington and… Read More ›
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