HOBART, Australia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Eleven pilot whales out of a large pod that stranded on a beach in Tasmania were successfully returned to the ocean Sunday.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Rescue workers Saturday night were trying to save 13 distressed pilot whales stranded on the Australian island of Tasmania, an official said.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. appellate court canceled a Royal Dutch Shell permit to drill for Alaskan oil, citing an agency's failure to conduct an environmental review.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Federal researchers said they're trying to figure out why beluga whales are dying in Alaska's Cook Inlet.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Cook Inlet beluga whale population near Anchorage, Alaska, was placed on the U.S. endangered list, federal marine officials said Friday.
NUUK, Greenland, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Greenland wants to remove its whale hunt from the jurisdiction of the International Whaling Commission, documents obtained by the BBC show.
HOUSTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a $9 million, five-year study shows endangered Gulf of Mexico sperm whales are minimally affected by oil and gas exploration.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Canadian fishery officials say cell phone users are helping safeguard three pods of endangered killer whales in the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia.
WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 29 (UPI) -- U.S. marine scientists say they've established a network of electronic buoys along Massachusetts Bay's shipping lanes to protect endangered right whales.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., March 16 (UPI) -- The rope lodged in the jaws of two right whales spotted off Massachusetts does not put the endangered animals at any immediate risk, researchers say.
WAIROA , New Zealand, March 13 (UPI) -- A New Zealand conservation official said two pygmy sperm whales that would not leave shallow water were finally led to safety by a friendly wild dolphin.
COCOA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Cocoa Beach, Fla., had to be called in to shoo away surfers who paddled too close to two endangered North Atlantic right whales this week.
TOKYO, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Japanese whaling fleet has reportedly postponed this year's whale hunt until after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's meeting with President George W. Bush.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard has warned mariners to take care to avoid hitting whales, after three whales were killed off the California coast.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 29 (UPI) -- The Japanese delegation at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, says it won't try to stop Eskimo bowhead whaling anymore.
