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90% of Minke Whales Killed in Norway Are Female and ‘Almost All’ Pregnant

By EcoWatch / March 13, 2017

Ninety percent of the minke whales hunted and killed each year in Norwegian waters are female and ” almost all” of them are pregnant, according to a documentary aired earlier this month on NRK, a government-owned public broadcasting company. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/havforskningsinstituttet/videos/vb.107340812637299/1770870212951009/?type=2&theater expand=1] The documentary, Slaget om kvalen (“Battle of Agony”), shows grisly footage of Norway’s […]

Rate of Ocean Warming Quadrupled Since Late 20th Century, Study Reveals

By EcoWatch / March 13, 2017

U.S. Navy-Trained Dolphins to Round Up Nearly Extinct Vaquita in Controversial Plan

By Dan Zukowski / January 5, 2017

Finding Hope for the Isle of Youth

By EcoWatch / December 28, 2016

Feds Sued by State of California Over Offshore Fracking

By EcoWatch / December 20, 2016

World’s First Aerial Survey of Great Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘It’s Worse Than We Thought’

By EcoWatch / October 3, 2016

Boyan Slat, the 22-year-old Dutch inventor and CEO behind The Ocean Cleanup, announced today preliminary results of the organization’s latest major research mission, the Aerial Expedition, the first-ever aerial survey of an ocean garbage patch. Boyan Slat next to Ocean Force One, which will help accurately quantify the ocean’s biggest and most harmful debris—discarded fishing […]

2 Critically Endangered Right Whales Found Dead, Entangled in Fishing Gear

By Dan Zukowski / September 29, 2016

Two North Atlantic right whales were found dead off the Maine coast on Tuesday, while a third was rescued from entrapment by fishing gear off Cape Cod. Ropes and bouys entangle a young, endangered right whale bear the U.S./Canada border in the Gulf of Maine.Campobello Whale Rescue A study by the New England Aquarium in […]

Warming Atlantic Ocean Leads to Rise in Marine Bacteria

By EcoWatch / August 9, 2016

By Robert McSweeney Rising sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic are likely to be behind a recent surge in cases of diarrhoeal diseases from marine bacteria in northern Europe and the U.S. East Coast, a new study says. In their analysis that goes back to 1958, the researchers show that levels of Vibrio bacteria—which […]

Buddhist Monks Return Hundreds of Lobsters Back to the Sea

By EcoWatch / July 13, 2016

By Alicia Graef Hundreds of lobsters avoided being boiled alive thanks to a group of Buddhist monks from Prince Edward Island. The monks, who are from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society, bought the lobsters—600 pounds worth of them—solely with the intention of returning them to their rightful home in the ocean. Hundreds of lobsters […]