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The very thought of Antarctica brings to mind the harsh icy terrain. I wonder how people manage to do their scientific expeditions in sub-zero conditions. Hostile conditions ensure that apart from a variety of penguins, whales and fur seals, no other...
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In an interesting change of policy, the Japanese police have finally gotten around to putting out arrest warrants for three environmental activists from the Sea...
made popular Aug 19 2008
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Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships...
made popular Aug 18 2008
AP, Tacoma
Five Makah Indian whalers who killed a gray whale during an illegal hunt last September have been sentenced in federal court. The sentences include jail time for two...
made popular Jul 1 2008
AP, Santiago
The International Whaling Commission ended its annual conference on Friday, leaving all the tough work on expanding or restricting whale hunting still ahead of it.The...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Commercial whalehunt is likely to exist in Japan in the name of scientific whalehunt. The Japanese government has shown no indication of any sort of ban on the annual...
made popular Jun 24 2008
Whaling, environmentalists contend, if allowed to continue, will change the ecology forever. They believe that unrestrained whaling has led to unsustainable whaling...
made popular Jun 24 2008
AP, Reykjavik
Whale hunting season began in Iceland on Tuesday as the country’s first whaling ship of the year set sail in defiance of a worldwide moratorium on the...
made popular May 20 2008
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Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan’s whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its...
made popular Apr 14 2008
The vast majority of Australians I have talked to about Japanese whaling agree with me that it is unnecessary and barbaric. Japanese “scientific” whaling...
made popular Mar 17 2008
AP, Sydney
Activists who have clashed violently with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters in recent months were headed back to port Tuesday because they were running out of...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, London
The International Whaling Commission criticized environmental activists protesting Japan’s whaling fleet, accusing them Saturday of threatening safety at sea.The...
made popular Mar 8 2008
AP, Tokyo
The Japanese coast guard said Friday that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest high seas clash...
made popular Mar 7 2008
AP, Tokyo
Anti-whaling activists hurled containers of rotten butter at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters Monday, lightly injuring several crewmembers, Japan’s...
made popular Mar 3 2008
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Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country’s much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the...
made popular Feb 8 2008
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country’s fleet, a Japanese official...
made popular Feb 6 2008
Whaling is the illegal practice of whale hunting for commercial purposes. The practice is prevalent since the 16th century and was condemned and declared illegal after...
made popular Feb 2 2008
Militant anti-whaling campaigners vowed more confrontations with Japan’s whaling fleet near Antarctica on Friday, while the whalers aimed to exhaust the protest...
made popular Jan 18 2008
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Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan’s whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials...
made popular Jan 16 2008
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Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic halted its operations Wednesday and scrambled to arrange the turnover of two activists who boarded one of its harpoon ships...
made popular Jan 16 2008
AP, Sydney
A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said _ setting off the...
made popular Jan 12 2008
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The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.”The long-term prognosis is...
made popular May 2 2008
The biggest colossal squid ever landed comes out of the deep freeze over the next day and a half in New Zealand.
The Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni specimen, caught in...
made popular Apr 28 2008
AP, Tokyo
Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan’s whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its...
made popular Apr 14 2008
AP, Washington
A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk.Satellite images show the runaway...
made popular Mar 25 2008
AP, Wellington
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand’s Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including...
made popular Mar 21 2008
One of them looks like a giant mint humbug, with its clear blue, green and brown stripes.
The other looks as if it has been shot through with a streak of...
made popular Mar 18 2008
AP, Sydney
Activists who have clashed violently with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters in recent months were headed back to port Tuesday because they were running out of...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, Tokyo
Anti-whaling activists hurled containers of rotten butter at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters Monday, lightly injuring several crewmembers, Japan’s...
made popular Mar 3 2008
Scientists exploring the ice-cold waters of Antarctica said they have collected baffling creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the muddy depths. The...
made popular Feb 22 2008
Global sea levels are expected to rise further this century and evidence in this regard comes from Antarctica where over 300 glaciers have begun to move more quickly...
made popular Jun 6 2007
The planet is no longer lonely; rather it is crowded and hot! Paving the way for a different kind of experience in travel, one that is primarily aimed at scientists but...
made popular May 3 2007
It is not possible for us to reach every location as some of them make it impossible for us to survive but does that mean that we leave those areas unexplored? And the...
made popular Dec 29 2006
In the past 20 years, the ozone loss in the Antarctic has been ‘massive’. Compared to the same phenomenon in the Arctic, a new study ahs found that the loss...
made popular Dec 26 2006
After gazing deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. A census of the world’s oceans has made a host of...
made popular Dec 11 2006
Recent years have seen this continent develop as a popular destination .A two-day cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina over rough waters brought Brian to this island. An...
made popular Aug 18 2006
Here is a good news for the environmentalists. The ozone hole over the Antarctic, which has all through a concern for scientists, is likely to begin contracting in the...
made popular May 22 2006
Glaciologists at the Royal Society in London, this week have busted the four-year-old claim that Antarctica would not contribute significantly to sea level rise in the...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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In this Feb. 12, 2007 file photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the ship, Robert Hunter, bottom, collides with the Japanese ship Kaiko Maru in the water of Antarctic. Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists...
