The coasts of southern Asia face a greater threat than anywhere else in the world from the discharge of untreated sewage, the United Nations says. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2293621.stm

The U.S. Navy said yesterday it was cooperating with a Spanish-led investigation into the beaching of more than a dozen whales off the Canary Islands last week during multinational military exercises there. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/daily

A deadly seal virus that has killed more than 1,000 animals on the east coast of England has spread to Scotland. Full Story

The sound rises up from the ocean floor like a deep, throaty groan as some of the planet’s most endangered animals lumber through the Bay of Fundy.

The net was originally a 186-metre length of tough, braided cord mesh anchored to the sea floor just offshore from Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. Then the humpbacks came. Reports were confused at first. It seemed that only one whale had blundered into the

An orphaned Canadian killer whale made headlines last summer when she was plucked from busy Puget Sound and reunited with her family up north.

You can imagine all the logistic and personnel difficulties during these moments, mostly due to the long coast and the multitude of inaccessible creeks and beaches that characterise the island. All the strandings occurred during NATO naval exercises (manoeuvres called “Neo tapon 2002E, in which at least 58 boats, 6 submarines, and 30 aeroplanes participated

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Chemicals used to make household products fire-resistant are being discovered in several Arctic species. Full Story

A U.S. official says the International Whaling Commission appears likely to approve a bowhead whale quota for Alaska Eskimo subsistence whalers.

A major political battle over the future of European Union fisheries policies got underway in Brussels Tuesday with a first ministerial debate on radical reform proposals from the European Commission. Full Story: http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002