55 whales, 25 dolphins die after becoming beached on Australian island
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HOBART, Australia  - A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to a beach on a southern Australian island where rescue teams Monday were desperately trying to prevent others from becoming stranded, a government official said.
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HOBART, Australia Wildlife officers are trying to save about 50 whales and dolphins near the coast of a southern Australian island.
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At least 65 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua and Honduras, officials say.
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Hundreds of thousands of native Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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Scientists and wildlife officials continued to search Tuesday for what may have caused a series of mass strandings which left 168 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days.
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Port Blair, Dec 29 At least half of the population of the Car Nicobar island was reported missing and aftershocks continued to rock the Andaman and Nicobar islands where between 3,000 and 6,000 people are feared killed in Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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The death toll from the killer waves unleashed across the Indian Ocean by the megaquake climbed inexorably toward 50,000 tonight. Indonesia believes at least 25,000 people died on Sumatra island - 10,000
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A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia's south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend.
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At least five people are now confirmed dead as wild storms continue to batter eastern Australia, officials say.
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In response to worldwide criticism, Japan announces threatened humpbacks will not be killed as planned on the annual whale hunt. Its whale fleet, now in the southern Pacific off Antarctica, will kill some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
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Volunteers worked frantically to save dozens of stranded whales and dolphins in Tasmania yesterday after more than 100 died in mass beachings on two offshore islands.
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BRISBANE, Australia - The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.
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More than half of about 500 whales killed by Japan in Antarctic waters during the last southern summer were pregnant, the Humane Society International (HSI) charged Tuesday.
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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HOBART, AUSTRALIA - More than 120 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves in two separate locations off Australia.
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Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred in Australia and New Zealand this week, proving an earlier predication made by Australian scientists, New Zealand Press Association said Wednesday.