Join the Navy, Kill Some Whales
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With an environmental waiver from President Bush, the Navy begins testing a sonar system off the coast of San Diego, despite the acknowledged harm to ocean mammals.
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By Noah Bierman, The Miami Herald  Jun. 5--FORT PIERCE -- Florida taxpayers are about to acquire a 204-foot research ship, a pair of submarine pods that dive more than half a mile under water and a library of 47,000 sponges and microorganisms that may hold cures to cancer.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an earth-friendly source of fuel.  Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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By KURT LOFT  To see exotic sea creatures up close and personal, you once had to don scuba gear and jump overboard.  Now, the fish are coming to you.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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As U.S., Australian navies prepare for exercises, scientists worry that sonar use can injure, even kill, whales.
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Greenpeace campaigners scouring remote seas near Antarctica found their quarry, a Japanese whaling fleet that plans to kill nearly 1,000 whales in the name of science.
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The Navy has a monkey on its back. Since at least 1982, U.S. Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, racist, infantile, misogynistic and menacing. Sometimes they threatened U.S. ships; at other times they...
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A federal judge has ordered the Navy to adopt stringent new safeguards intended to improve protection of whales and dolphins during its sonar training exercises off Southern California.
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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.
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The Navy can use high-power sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast, despite the technology's threat to whales and other marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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By AUDREY McAVOY  HONOLULU - The Navy says it won't comply with sonar training restrictions that aim to protect marine mammals off the California coast, arguing that the commission that imposed the rules does not have the jurisdiction to do so.  The U.S.
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The U.S. Navy says it will deploy marine mammals trained to detect waterborne attackers at a Washington state sub base
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Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, the Navy said Monday.
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The navies of the United States, Australia, India, Japan and Singapore begin a massive naval exercise.
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Ships steaming into Boston harbor will soon shift course to avoid whales in the first change of U.S. shipping lanes to protect an endangered species.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.