San Diego Aquarium Breeds Rare Weedy Sea Dragon in Captivity
A Southern California aquarium has successfully bred the rare weedy sea dragon, the lesser known cousin of the sea horse that resembles seaweed when floating.
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Conservationists Attacked in Refuge for Mexican Porpoise
Conservationists on a Sea Shepherd vessel out to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise came under gun fire in the upper Gulf of California over the weekend by men in small boats.
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Conservationists Ask Feds to Protect Rare Freshwater Seals
A conservation group urged the federal government Thursday to protect an inhabitant of the eighth-largest lake in the United States — a rare colony of about 400 freshwater seals.
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Dozens of Rare Whales Spotted Off New England, Caution Urged
The federal government is asking vessels to slow down in an area south of Nantucket because approximately one eighth of the worldwide population of an endangered whale has been spotted nearby.
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Indigenous Groups Lose Court Bid to Block Canada Pipeline
Canada’s plan to triple the oil flowing through a government pipeline could move forward after a court dismissed challenges from four indigenous groups who claimed the project will poison their water and imperil endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
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Open Sores, Lower Numbers Likely Not Invasive Lionfish’s End
A new disease has caused open sores that can eat into the muscles of invasive lionfish and appears to have contributed to an abrupt drop in their numbers in the northern Gulf of Mexico, scientists reported Tuesday. But they hasten to say it’s probably far from the end of the showy invader with long, venomous spines.
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Ninth Circuit Hears Fight Pitting Planned US Base and Okinawa’s Dugong
The dugong once thrived along the shores of Okinawa, the smallest of Japan’s five main islands located about 400 miles south of the country’s mainland.
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Tibetan Monks Help Release Sea Turtle in Florida Keys
Visiting Tibetan monks helped release a rehabilitated sea turtle in the Florida Keys Thursday.
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Another Endangered Northwest Orca Missing, Feared Dead
Another endangered orca is missing and presumed dead in the Pacific Northwest, a large male who had fathered many of the population’s calves in the past three decades.
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Survey: Alaska’s Cook Inlet Beluga Whales Continue Decline
The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday.
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Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study
Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a rate equivalent to the emissions of some large fossil fuel exporting countries, researchers said Tuesday.
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Good News in Maui for Turtles and Struggling Bird
Fewer sea turtles were found stranded on Maui last year than in 2018, although officials say most cases continue to be caused by fishing gear.
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The Center for Biological Diversity sued Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources in state court, claiming it’s allowed commercial take of “at least 576,741 individual specimens of aquatic life extracted from Hawaii waters for aquarium purposes,” in defiance of state law and a court order.
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Feds to Set Aside Habitat for Endangered Appalachia Crayfish
It’s a big day for the little crayfish of Appalachia, as the federal government signaled Monday that it will propose protected habitat space for the endangered species due to coal mining operations and water pollution.
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French Campaigners Highlight Trawlers’ Deadly Toll on Dolphins
Operation Dolphin By-Catch aims to warn the public that industrial trawling is devastating the local dolphin population, with hundreds washing up dead on the west coast of France every year.
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Scientists Tout Need to Make Marine Protected Areas Mobile
The ocean is a series of dynamic ecosystems which calls for dynamic measures to protect its marine wildlife.
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Hundreds of Rare Turtles Die on Mexican Coast
Nearly 300 rare green turtles have been found dead on the beaches of southern Mexico, killed by a red tide of microalgae caused in part by climate change, authorities said.
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Baby Gray Whale Swims With Mother Off Southern California
A baby gray whale heading south with its mother was spotted swimming alongside dolphins and sea lions off the Southern California coast.
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Turtles in Trouble: Conservationists Take on Trump
Conservationists brought a federal complaint Wednesday that accuses the Trump administration of hastening the extinction of the green sea turtle by failing to designate habitats and to earmark funding.
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Acidified Oceans Found to Corrode Scales of South African Sharks
Extended exposure to ocean water that has become too acidic as a result of global carbon dioxide emissions corrodes the scales of certain sharks, according to a new study published Thursday in Scientific Reports.
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