Tag: Whales - Page 8
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Sea Shepherd's "Sea No Evil" Activist Art Auction
Captain Paul Watson, Shepard Fairey and Crystal Method are throwing a party and you're invited. For the fourth year, the Sea No Evil Art Show auction and fundraising event will benefit the
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Good Ocean News! Blue Whales On a Feeding Spree Off California Coast
Amid all the bad news about marine ecosystems needing life support around the world, there is a tiny spot of happy news today on the ocean beat. Actually, a big spot, a blue whale-sized spot. In an
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Human-Generated Noise Yet Another Threat to Northern Right Whales
Right whales, it's believed, earned their name for being the "right whales to hunt." The whales are rich in blubber, swim slowly, and
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World's Smallest Whale Population Drops to 30 Individuals
As the world continues to struggle over a plan to control—if not stop—commercial whaling, one of the industry's victims struggles for
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Whaling & Dolphin Hunting Not About What's Being Killed But Who
Continuing on a theme that keeps coming up on TreeHugger, the fact that an increasing number of scientists believe that cetaceans have levels of self-awareness and societal development that they
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Drop the Harpoon! Whale-Watching is Good Business
New research into the whale-watching industry is confirming what we've known all along--that the world's largest mammal is worth more alive than it is dead. Sure, there may be a dwindling number of folks salivating at the thought of
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Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon "Slow Jam" BP Oil Spill News, Dave Matthews Speaks Up Against Mountaintop Removal, and More (Video)
We'll keep this one short, the video is hilarious--just watch it! NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show Tuesday night, we watched it first on Ecorazzi. The "slow jam" covers the BP oil spill; the need for renewable
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Sperm Whales Are Chock Full of Deadly Metals Found In Human Food Supplies
After five years of collecting tissue samples of sperm whales, researchers have found that the mammals harbor an incredibly high level of deadly toxins, including cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury
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Commercial Hunting Just One of Many Problems Facing Whales: Oil Exploration, Pollution, Fishing Nets
The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming
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Whaling 'Peace Plan' Talks Fall Apart - Japan Unwilling to Say When It Will Stop Killing Whales
It's rare that a whaling peace plan falling apart could be a good thing, but for considering that the one being negotiated in Morocco, which would effectively sanction the actions of whaling nations Japan, Norway, and Iceland,
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TED Talk: The Incredible Ways Marine Mammals Use Sound
We know that sound is vital to marine mammals, who use it for navigating, communication with one another, hunting and more. But much of their use of sound and what different sounds mean is mysterious. Peter Tyack
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Recycled Cassette Tapes Worn at Global Green Awards
Global Green's Matt Petersen shows off his new suit made with old cassette tapes. Photos by Charley Gallay Global Green handed out its annual Millennium Awards last weekend, recognizing the EPA's 40th anniversary, green buildings and James Cameron's
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Japanese Whalers Building Homes, Buying Cars With Illegally Sold Whale Meat: Former Whaler
Critics of the legitimacy of Japan's whaling fleet's claims that they are conducting scientific research and not just conducting a covert commercial whale hunt have long said that whale meat was being sold on the sly. Now a former whaler--calling himself
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Japan Accused of Bribing Nations to be Pro-Whaling
On the heels of an International Whaling Commission meeting slated for later this month to discuss the future prospects of commercial hunts, conscience and moral imperatives may not be the only thing influencing the countries
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Top Chefs Help Michelle Obama in the Garden, Pierce Brosnan Speaks Out for Whales, and More
Michelle Obama enlisted the help of chefs from around the country -- including Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, and Cat Cora -- for the next phase of her Let's Move! campaign, which is aimed at decreasing childhood obesity rates.
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New Discoveries in Dolphin Communication Reveal Use of Diplomacy to Avoid Fights
We know that dolphins have an advanced language, more complicated than most other creatures that we're aware of. But to what extent is only now being unraveled. A complex communication system is a sign of a complex
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San Francisco Bay Area Marine Sanctuaries Project Localized Climate Change Impacts
On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences kicked off its Oceans Conference with a recently released report on the impacts of climate change on the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine
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Australia Makes Good on Threat to Take Japan to Court to Stop Whaling
Whale meat on sale at the Tsukiji fish market in Japan, photo: Stefan Powell. Threatened for some time now, Australia has begun legal action against Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean. Formal proceedings will begin in The Hague next week and
