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WWF urges banks to block Sakhalin oil plan and save whales

Environment group WWF on Thursday urged three European banks to block Russian giant Sakhalin Energy's plan to build an oil drilling platform that the group claims could harm the endangered grey whale.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists shocked by behavior of rare gray whale

Scientists tracking a rare western Pacific gray whale were shocked last winter when the endangered animal left the Asian coast, crossed the Bering Sea and swam south along Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study shows best places to protect marine mammals

(AP) -- From sea otters to blue whales, marine mammals are under stress from climate change, ocean acidification, hunting and other threats. Researchers have identified 20 important sites around the world ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Killer whale sounds fail to urge gray whale to sea

(AP) -- A female gray whale remains stuck in a Northern California river despite scientists' efforts to nudge the 40-ton mammal seaward with unpleasant underwater sounds.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

2 gray whales stuck in N. Calif. river for month

(AP) -- Biologists say they're concerned about the health of a gray whale that's stranded in the Klamath River in Northern California after swimming up with her calf a month ago.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gray whales likely survived the Ice Ages by changing their diets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Off California coast, a bumper gray whale season

At the Aquarium of the Pacific, Michele Sousa is excited: the annual gray whale migration is in full swing, and it's a bumper year to view the lumbering leviathans off the California coast.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oil giant plans new platform near feeding ground of critically endangered whale

Sakhalin Energy Investment Company – part owned by Shell – has announced plans to build a major oil platform near crucial feeding habitat of the Western North Pacific gray whale population.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Critically endangered whales flee Russian oil, gas boom

Russian oil and gas company Rosneft is conducting oil and gas exploration work that may have caused the critically endangered western gray whale to flee its main feeding ground.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gray whale stranded again at park in Wash. state

(AP) -- A gray whale that was stranded off the shores of Washington state and managed to get back to open waters has beached itself again.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seismic probe threat to endangered whales: experts

International Whaling Commission scientists have warned that a seismic survey in Russia's Far East could push a critically endangered population of whales closer to extinction.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Calif. gray whale-watchers fear dip in population

(AP) -- Gazing past the rolling whitecaps in the middle of San Diego's whale-watching season, boat captain Bill Reese was dismayed by what he wasn't seeing.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0