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U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 5, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled Monday that the Navy is not exempt from c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Scientists hope recordings of orcas attacking a mother whale and her calf will persuade a pair of ailing humpbacks meandering in a freshwater river to head back toward the ocean. The tactic is the latest that increasingly concerned marine biologists ha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 10:28pm neoform

CNN -- Two whales that lost their way more than a week ago spent a second day circling near a Sacramento River bridge Tuesday, about 70 miles from the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. Both whales are wounded, apparently from a run-in with a boat's propeller... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

USA Today -- Three pygmy killer whales were stranded at North Myrtle Beach on Wednesday and two were so sick they had to be put to death, a biologist said. At midday Wednesday, a female was still stranded, but officials were trying to keep her alive as they searche.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 12:19am neoform

USA Today -- The busy shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor will be narrowed and shifted northward Sunday in a bid to lower the risk of rare right whales being killed by ships. It's the first time in U.S. history shipping lanes have been changed to protect wil.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

USA Today -- After a two-week sojourn through a Northern California river delta, two lost whales were moving closer to an ocean homecoming. The mother humpback and her calf made considerable progress Tuesday and were last seen less than 10 miles from the Golden Gat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

CNN -- Two lost whales seen just before sunset nearing the ocean after a two-week sojourn through inland California waterways may have slipped back into the Pacific overnight. Rescuers launched several boats in an effort to find the mother humpback and her ca.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 3:25pm neoform

FOX News -- Two humpback whales lost in the Sacramento River once again halted near a busy bridge, a day after making considerable progress in their quest to return to the Pacific Ocean. Though they had stopped in a relatively narrow section of the river for the p.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

USA Today -- Whale rescuers boarded a fire boat Friday and prepared to spray powerful hoses into the water near two stranded whales in the latest attempt to herd the wounded humpbacks back to their ocean habitat. The tactic has never been attempted before, and scie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 11:07am neoform

USA Today -- SAN FRANCISCO — A wayward mother whale and her calf have miles to go and obstacles to overcome as marine biologists try to coax them from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta back to the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away. The two humpback whales made their way.. Read More