Save the Whales
Please!!!
LIKE MANY Americans, you might think the world had already saved the whales. The cause that galvanized so many people's environmental consciences, after all, produced an international ban on whaling fully two decades ago. Yet whaling continues. In fact, it's increasing. Japan, Norway and Iceland...
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Washington -- Japan and Norway, two nations that have refused to give up large-scale whaling despite widespread condemnation, are on the cusp of gaining control of the international commission that since 1986 has strictly limited whale hunting in an effort to rebuild the population of the world's largest creatures...
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JAPAN GAINS KEY WHALING VICTORY
Growing Acidity of Oceans May Kill Corals
By Juliet Eilperin
The escalating level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic, government and independent scientists say. They warn that, by the end of the century, the trend could decimate coral reefs and creatures that underpin the sea's food web. A new report says carbon dioxide emissions are affecting ocean chemistry, and threaten corals and other organisms that secrete skeletal structures.
Growing Acidity of Oceans May Kill Corals
A tiny country that still hunts whales scuttles an effort to save the ocean bottom. IN A FORM of fishing known as bottom trawling, huge, weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor, destroying corals and just about everything else in their path.
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