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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)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Duck, Duck, Gross		24 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Duck, Duck, Gross More than a dozen years after an Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil, nearly 10,000 gallons of the oil remain buried under the shoreline. The lingering oil was documented during a three-month field study last summer; the study's results were presented this week during t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Oil the Way		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Oil the Way California Gov. Gray Davis (D) reiterated his opposition to offshore oil drilling in his state yesterday and vowed he would fight the Bush administration all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary to stop development of 36 drilling leases granted by the federal government. Because of a moratorium imposed by the first President Bush, most new oil ...
Topics: air pollution, California, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

That'll Do, Babe Kris Williams is saving sea turtles in Georgia	Gail Krueger	01 Dec 2000	Main Dish
Kris Williams is the "Turtle Babe" of Wassaw Island. At 33, the attractive, square-jawed blonde heads the oldest volunteer-based sea turtle conservation project in North America. What a babe. Optimism comes as naturally to Williams as the tide comes to the beach. It has to, because sea turtle conservation in Georgia isn't easy. "Awareness is higher than it's ever been and that gives me ...
Topics: fishing, Georgia, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Dream of the Black-and-Blue Turtles Sea turtle activists are pushing for protections in Texas	Dan Oko	25 Aug 2000	Main Dish
They may be swimming against the current, but sea turtle advocates say they want Gov. George W. Bush (R) to show a little of his fabled compassion for the endangered reptiles that frequent the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast. The New York Times ad. Image: STRP. As the GOP presidential hopeful prepared to accept his party's nomination earlier this month, the San Francisco- ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, grassroots activism, oceans, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Here Today, Gone Tomalley What's killing off lobsters in Long Island Sound?	Christine Woodside	20 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Richard A. French, a specialist in animal disease at the University of Connecticut, often comes to work wearing a lobster tie tack he bought at a shellfish conference. He's had lobsters on the brain lately, particularly the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of lobsters have died within the last year in Long Island Sound. In a sea of troubles. Photo: OAR/NURP. In the western end of the ...
Topics: fishing, New York, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Down for the Count? There aren't many right whales left	Gail Krueger	09 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Chris Slay wears bib overalls and wire-rimmed glasses, occasionally recites poetry, and watches right whales for a living. Once more into the breach. David Wiley, National Marine Fisheries Service. After this year's dismal right whale calving season, the poetry that comes to Slay's mind is darkly pessimistic. The rarest whale of them all may be getting rarer. The Northern right whale, the most endangered of th ...
Topics: endangered species, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Coast Is Clear -- of Salmon Atlantic salmon are even worse off than their Pacific cousins	Wayne Curtis	12 Apr 2000	Main Dish
To catch an Atlantic salmon in the Machias River back in the 1940s -- and we're talking a legitimate salmon here, maybe 30 or 40 pounds -- didn't require a knack with rod and reel, nor even the wily patience of the angler. Mostly what you needed was decent aim with a rifle or pitchfork or jig hook. The mighty Machias. Or for that matter, a good-sized river stone. "I reme ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Not the Only Fish in the Sea Are efforts to protect the dolphin putting other fish in a sea of trouble?	Rick Gaffney	28 Oct 1999	Main Dish
There were predictable cries of protest from some conservationists who focus on charismatic megafauna when revised standards for use of the "dolphin safe" tuna label were announced by the Commerce Department in April. Though the new rules stipulate that no dolphins should be killed or seriously injured, they do let canners label their product "dolphin ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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