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Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case A federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday imposed $4.5 billion in punitive damages on ExxonMobil Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill in Prince William Sound. The judgment marks t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, marine life, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution New research indicates that human-made toxins have infiltrated deep and remote parts of the ocean. The Ocean Alliance, a Massachusetts-based research organization, has found troubling levels of DDT, PCBs, and other contaminants in the blubber of sperm whales. Scienti ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Navy Gravy U.S. Navy Agrees to Reduce Use of Sonar System Linked to Whale Deaths In a sweet but possibly temporary victory for environmentalists, the U.S. Navy has agreed to dramatically decrease its use of a low-frequency sonar system that has been associated with the deaths of whales and other marine mammals. A court agreement announced yesterday limits the Navy to using the sonar system in less than 1 perce ...
Topics: oceans, US Navy, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding In a blow for two Texas energy companies, a huge Peruvian natural-gas project was denied funding yesterday because of concerns about the likely impact on a marine preserve, a rainforest, and indigenous people in the Amazon Basin. In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Export-Import ...
Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Peru, politics, rainforests, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc Conservationists are warning that plans to build the world's largest energy project -- a massive pipeline and three oil-drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan -- could mean environmental disaster. T ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, oceans, Russia, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Bass Ackwards International Team Chases Illegal Fishing Vessel Across High Seas		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Bass Ackwards International Team Chases Illegal Fishing Vessel Across High Seas It's kind of like "Pirates of the Caribbean," only it's set in the Indian Ocean. Australian and South African customs ships are hunting down the Viarsa, an Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching millions of pounds of endangered Patagonian toothfish. The high drama on the high seas has covered more than 1,000 miles from A ...
Topics: Australia, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Send in the Marine Reserves Marine Hotspots Could Be Key to Saving Endangered Ocean Species		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Send in the Marine Reserves Marine Hotspots Could Be Key to Saving Endangered Ocean Species Rainforests and savannah watering holes have long been recognized as biodiversity "hotspots," where a wide array of species live and interact. Now, scientists have pulled together compelling data pointing to the existence of marine hotspots as well -- ocean locations where a large number of endangered marine animal ...
Topics: marine life, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back The Yakama Nation has filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Department of Energy over its alleged failure to protect the Columbia River from contamination by the Hanford nuclear reservation. Thanks to four decades of plutonium production, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country; ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, litigation, news, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Jagged Little Pill		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Jagged Little Pill Birth control pills aren't just having an effect on human reproduction: They're dramatically reducing the fertility of male rainbow trout as well, according to a study by scientists in Washington state. In the study, adult captive trout were exposed to synthetic estrogen for two months, then spawned with a healthy female. Synthetic es ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

They Can't Strongarm Armstrong		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
They Can't Strongarm Armstrong A federal judge has issued an excoriating dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 22 Southern California inland cities that challenged rules requiring them to help prevent trash from reaching the ocean. The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, is significant because it dismisses the first of 13 legal challenges to new state and feder ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

They Otter Be Proud		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
They Otter Be Proud The English otter, a beloved mammal once thought to have all but disappeared from the nation's waterways, is staging an impressive comeback. Otters can now be found in nearly 35 percent of England's rivers and wetlands, a five-fold increase over numbers from 25 years ago, according to survey results released by the government yesterday. Otter populations dropp ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, United Kingdom, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Muck Ado About Something		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Muck Ado About Something Russian journalist and environmental muckraker Grigory Pasko was paroled from prison yesterday after serving part of a highly contested term for treason. Pasko became the poster-child for concerns about Russian limitations on press freedoms when he was convicted for taking notes during a 1997 meeting of Russian naval ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Gill-ty		26 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Gill-ty Not only has Washington state failed to warn people against fishing in many spots polluted with toxics, it has gone so far as to recommend fishing in some spots known to have high concentrations of mercury, according to a new report released by two environmental groups. The report by the Washington Toxics Coalition and Washington Public Interest Research Group also found that the state has sometimes waited years ...
Topics: health, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Sound the Alarm		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound the Alarm The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a five-year effort to catalogue the woes of the Puget Sound ecosystem, gathering information for what could become an undertaking as grand in size as the $8 billion Everglades restoration project. Many of the 2,354 miles of the sound's seashore, containing tide flats, marshes, and bluffs, are under ass ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Washington, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Sunken Ships, Loose Lips		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sunken Ships, Loose Lips Toxic goop leaking from more than one thousand sunken World War II vessels is threatening fish stocks, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and other tourist destinations. The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme has begun cataloguing the risks posed by the 1,080 wrecks, which are loaded with such toxic goodies as chemicals, ordnance, and oil. Las ...
Topics: Japan, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Come on In, the Water's Fine		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Come on In, the Water's Fine Ecologists and sport-fishing fans have succeeded in blocking a decree by the Mexican government that would have increased commercial shark fishing and threatened other fish stocks. Mexico currently requires shark vessels to stay 50 miles offshore; the new rule would have allowed them to come within a half-mile of the coast, dragging mile-wide nets and six-mile ...
Topics: Mexico, outdoor recreation, politics, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Send in the Marine Reserves		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Send in the Marine Reserves Australia has unveiled plans to create the world's largest marine reserve in 16 million acres of the Indian Ocean, 2,500 miles off the nation's southwest coast. The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve will be twice the size of Switzerland and will protect one of the world's most pristine marine environments from exploitation, including fishing and oil and mineral extraction. T ...
Topics: Australia, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Clubbed Med		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Clubbed Med Ah, the Mediterranean: brilliant sun, snow-white sand, a smattering of paradisiacal islands in a glittering sea. That's the reputation that makes the region the most popular tourist destination in the world -- but sadly, the flood of tourists is rapidly unmaking the reputation. Every year, the region hosts 200 million visitors -- nearly one-third of the world's tourist flo ...
Topics: business, Mediterranean, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Sea Minus		23 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Minus It's an ocean of trouble out there -- such were the conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, which issued an interim report today at the halfway-point of an 18-month study of ocean health and marine resources. So far, the commission has found that about 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands in the U.S. are disappearing annually, threatening the spawning, feeding, and nursery areas of three-quarters of ...
Topics: water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

Deaf Charges		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Deaf Charges In better news for environmentalists, a federal judge has rejected an effort by the White House and the U.S. Navy to exempt underwater military testing and other deep-sea activities from environmental review. Judge Christina Snyder ruled yesterday that the National Environmental Policy Act applies to such activities even if they are conducted beyond U.S. territorial water (but within 200 miles o ...
Topics: politics, US Navy, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Ground Down		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ground Down Hoping to fend off the utter collapse of several groundfish populations, U.S. regulators voted on Friday to ban bottom-fishing next year on most of the continental shelf in the Pacific. The vote, by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, was geared especially toward protecting populations of nine types of rockfish -- often sold in markets as red snapper -- that have been overf ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Not So Jolly		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Not So Jolly An Italian ship carrying 400,000 gallons of diesel and fuel oil as well as highly toxic chemicals grounded yesterday just off a park in South Africa that is home to rare birds, fish, turtles, and plants. A fire has been raging on the Jolly Rubino for days, and the ship has come to rest seven miles south of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park's main estuary. Oil is r ...
Topics: national parks, South Africa, toxics, water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

Rock Me Like a Hurricane		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Rock Me Like a Hurricane The healing of the Florida Everglades is the largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history -- and its got some of the nation's highest hopes pinned on it. Some of those hopes involve the Florida Bay, a once-pristine angler's paradise that all but collapsed in the late 1980s, when its clear waters became clouded and 100,000 acres of sea grasses disappeared, as did numerous marine ani ...
Topics: Florida, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Signs, Seals Not Delivered		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Signs, Seals Not Delivered Thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez spill sent 11 million gallons of crude oil pouring into Alaska's Prince William Sound, some species still show no sign of recovery, according to the government panel overseeing the area's restoration. The long-suffering species include herring, ducks, harbor seals, and loons; others, such as some seabird and salmon s ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Prawn-ography		18 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

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