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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast Freaky environmental anomalies along the Pacific Coast from central California to British Columbia may devastate the region's wildlife, scientists say. Ocean temperatures in the area are 2 to 5 degrees higher than usual this summer; no one's sure why, but scientists suspect a lack of north ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, Pacific Ocean, West Coast (all these topics)

Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles Yesterday we wrote about longline fishing wiping out large numbers of albatrosses; today, there's news that the fishing technique is messing with another charismatic critter -- the sea turtle. "In the year 2000, longline fishermen from 40 nations set at least 1.4 billion hooks on longlines that average about 40 miles long ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Food Chain Reaction Mid-Century Whaling Caused Marine Ecosystem Collapse, Scientists Say		25 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Food Chain Reaction Mid-Century Whaling Caused Marine Ecosystem Collapse, Scientists Say For years, marine biologists in the North Pacific have been puzzled by the seemingly inexplicable decline of Alaskan seals, sea lions, and otters in the region. The problem wasn't lack of food; in fact, these animals' prey populations, such as sea urchins, are booming. Now, a group of researchers think they have the answer: a collaps ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

The Bycatcher in the Rye		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Bycatcher in the Rye "Save the whales!" "Save the dolphins!" Those were rallying cries of the environmental movement in the 1980s and '90s, and they culminated in a successful campaign for "dolphin-safe" tuna -- that is, tuna-fishing practices in the Pacific Ocean that wouldn't harm marine mammals. Unfortunately, scientists now say that commercial f ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Little Drummer Buoy		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Little Drummer Buoy For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don't have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Stories About: marine life AND oceans AND Pacific Ocean