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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Tangled Up in Deep Blue		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tangled Up in Deep Blue Each day, nearly 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises are sent to an untimely death after they get tangled up in nets and other fishing equipment, according to a new study conducted by American and Scottish scientists and released by the World Wildlife Fund. These accidental captures may be the biggest threat to the sea mammals' survival, more deadly than pollution and collisions with ships ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain Thousands of tons of oil have begun to wash up on seaports and the beaches of Galicia, Spain, after the hull of a rusty oil tanker at sea cracked last week during a storm. The country has suspended fishing on parts of its northwestern coast and workers are trying desperately to limit any further damage from the accident. Dozens of tons of oil remain on ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain, World Wildlife Fund (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)

Stories About: marine life AND oceans AND World Wildlife Fund