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Largest High Tech Ocean Observatory Opens
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NEPTUNE Canada's new Pacific Ocean observatory uses 500 miles of data-transmitting cable and underwater cameras to monitor the ocean
Right Whale Feeding Areas Declared Critical Habitat
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The future of one of Canada's most endangered animals, the North Atlantic right whale, has just got a little brighter.
European Seal Bill Passed
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The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly today to ban seal product imports...
Mercury Levels in Arctic Seals Linked to Melting Ice
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Researchers in Canada are reporting for the first time that high mercury levels in certain Arctic seals appear to be linked to vanishing sea ice caused by global warming
Excessive Bycatch Undermines Moratorium
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Information provided to WWF-Canada said that European Union boats were responsible for the largest proportion of the overrun in bycatch
Fossil Pieces Put Together Reveal A New Marine Predator
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The fossils of a monster predator with a circular jaw and a pair of claws on its head has been discovered in the old collections of the Smithsonian museum in Washington
Prohibition on Seal Products in the EU
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"The vast majority of Europeans want the EU to enact a strong prohibition on seal products, which will end the suffering I witness on the Canadian ice floes each year."
Dolphins Rescued
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A group of White Beaked dolphins were trapped in icy waters off the coast of Seal Cove and rescued by heroic residents
Ship Speed Limit May Help Rare Whales Survive Strikes
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A critical problem this time of year, is when pregnant females cruise south from the cold waters off Canada and New England to the warm nursery off the southeastern U.S. seaboard. It's a journey of...
Join The Humane Society Protest To Stop The Canadian Seal Hunt
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Join The Humane Society and Nigel Barker at a demonstration at the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. Nov 10th
Nikon D3 and Subal ND3
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Alex Mustard reviews the Nikon D3 with the Subal ND3 housing.
Mystery Of Arctic Explosion And Dead Whales Likely To remain
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An explosion that allegedly killed several whales in Canada's Northwest Passage in late July will likely remain a mystery.
Nigel Barker Shoots The Seal Hunt For The Humane Society
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In the wake of environmental decline and man's impact on the earth, and the ocean, there are several marine mammal hunts, including international whaling, and the dolphin slaughter in Japan,that...
Shark Breeding Ground Confirmed off Northern East Coast
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Scientists have discovered a new breeding ground for porbeagle sharks off **Canada's East Coast
New Batch of Walruses Gets Tagged
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Ten walruses in Greenland have been fitted with satellite tags in a new bid to confirm whether the blubbery beasts spend their summers in Canada
HSI and The HSUS Seal-Hunt Observers: Video Evidence Proves Innocence
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Today, representatives of The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International return to court to refute charges relating to technical violations of Canada's Fisheries Act...
Hysterical Hearn Hatefully Harasses Harp Seal Heroes
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A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada's Minister of Fishy Business held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and...
Great Lakes Officials Seek Aid From U.S. and Canada
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Regional government agencies around the Great Lakes spend some $15 billion a year to protect the lakes from invasive species, contaminated sediment and sewage overflows
2008 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
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From sub-Arctic waters off northern Canada to the freshwater springs of North Florida, the search for the year's best wildlife photographer has begun
Sharkwater Debuts Nov 2nd
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An open letter from Rob Stewart - the man behind Sharkwater...Hopefully by now you've heard about Sharkwater, the most award winning documentary of the year that broke box office records in Canada
Beluga whales trapped in frozen Husky Lakes again
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The acting mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., is frustrated wildlife managers have allowed a group of beluga whales to get trapped in nearby lakes for the second winter in a row.
Merven Gruben told...
New Film Festival Focuses on Canadian Seal Hunt
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Docs on the Bay, a new documentary film festival to be held annually in Stephenville, is the first film festival in Atlantic Canada dedicated solely to the presentation and promotion of documentary...
Trial Of Seal Hunt Observers Threatens Right To Witness Annual Slaughter
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Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
Campaigner 'prepared For Jail' Over Seal Cull Film
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A fur trade campaigner from Nottingham has said he would rather go to jail than pay a fine after being accused of breaching an exclusion zone to film a seal cull in Canada.
Mark Glover, of the...
Ships Asked To Avoid Whale Route
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The endangered right whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian...
Over And Out From Tagged Walruses
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In April, researchers attached transmitters to eight of west Greenland's walruses in a bid to uncover their secret summer hide-out.
While many tags failed early on, one of the satellite devices...
Canada Invests 42.5 Million To Protect Its Ocean Waters
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Canada on Tuesday announced an investment over three years of 42.5 million dollars (US) in conserving and protecting its territorial waters, especially the Arctic Ocean.
About half that amount,...
Protecting Cod And Coral Off Eastern Canada
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Decisions made at a meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization will help cod recover and protect vulnerable cold-water corals off the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador....
Arctic Melt Unnerves The Experts
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The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia....
Fishing Polar Bear Confirms Inuit Legend
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Inuit people of the Arctic have always known about it, but no outsiders have witnessed it for 200 years: a polar bear fishing. Not by scooping the fish out of the water like a brown bear - but by...
Canada-U.S. Patrol Finds 10 Suspected Drift Netters In North Pacific
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A Canada-U.S. aerial patrol identified 10 vessels suspected of illegally fishing with drift nets in the international waters of the North Pacific in September, Canadian Forces officials say....
Seaweed Forests Offer Marine Hope
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Scientists have discovered kelp forests in the tropics, raising hopes over the ability of marine life to survive global warming, according to a study.
Coral reefs were thought to be the only...
Scientists Come Face To Face With Rare Deep-water Creatures Off Nova Scotia
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An endangered species of whale that can dive as deep as a kilometre to feed is helping scientists determine how to protect an unusual marine ecosystem off Canada's East Coast.
Observations of...
Time Running Out For Polar Bears
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A new report on the fate of polar bears in a world of climate change predicts disaster for one of the world's most charismatic species, says WWF.
The report by the US Geological Survey predicts...
Orcas, Killer Whales May Suffer From Contamination Next 30 To 60 Years
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Orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effects of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for the next 30 u" 60 years, despite 1970s-era regulations that have reduced overall...
Machine Gun Used In Whale Hunt
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The long gun registry in Canada has come under fire from those who hunt for deer and other game. They claim that people don't hunt with shot guns, and want the registry kept for more dangerous...
'Incredibly Lucky' Find Yields Important Fish Fossil
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Working in west-central Alberta, the now defunct Cequel Energy Inc. company thrust a 7.5-centimetre-wide drill more than 1,300 metres into the ground. When the tube pulled up a sample of earth, it...
Pollution Stunts Canada's Beluga Whales
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The beluga whales make a shrill sound as they stick their noses out of the water, watched by conservationist Michel Moisan. They are a rare sight this far south -- and the chemicals washing into...
Sandbar Sharks Get Some Help
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Federal fisheries officials are taking additional steps to protect sandbar sharks.
A new rule would ban the recreational harvest of sandbar sharks - recognizable by their long pectoral fins -...
Shrinking Lake Superior Also Heating Up
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Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake, has been shrinking for yearsu"and now it appears to be getting hotter.
Beachgoers at the lake, which is bounded by Wisconsin, Michigan,...
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
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A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER
Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
Stop the Seal Slaughter - Boycott Canadian Products
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March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
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A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER --
Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks.
The Convention on International Trade in...
DNA Reveals Hooded Seals Have Wanderlust
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Researchers have discovered a new fact about hooded seals, a mysterious 200 to 400 kilogram mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean.
An international team of researchers...
Reminder: End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power
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With over 177,222 harp seals and seal babies slaughtered to date, it seems like things couldn't get much worse in Canada. Yet, brutality witnessed on the ice this month by the seal hunt observation...
Basking Shark In Danger Of Extinction
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Canada's giant basking sharks face extinction because of government measures decades ago to stop them disrupting salmon fishing, an official committee on threatened species said on Tuesday....
World Record Broken In Cayman Waters
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A new women's constant ballast freediving world record was set last Sunday with a depth of 88m / 289ft off Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands by a member of Performance Freediving International...
End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power!
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Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Coral Reef Collapse Spells Danger For Millions
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Island communities that depend on coral reef fisheries could face a hungry future, according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries &...
Controversal Seal Hunt Delayed Due To Ice Breakup
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Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row.
The controversial...
Lack Of Ice Set To Kill Start Of Canada Seal Hunt
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The first stage of Canada's controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal...
Canada Seal Hunt Update - Let's Hope It's Cancelled!
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Canadian officials remained uncertain Wednesday if the controversial annual seal hunt can take place this year in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, citing higher-than-normal mortality rates of...
Stop The Canadian Seal Slaughter
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March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
Spiky Oddball Once Prowled Ocean
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A quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armoured body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists say.
They...
Global Warming Puts Harp Seal Pups At Risk
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Global warming is making it harder for newborn harp seals to survive in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off Newfoundland in Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reported on Friday....
Indonesia To Issue Longer Visas To Draw More Tourists
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Indonesia is to grant foreign visitors visas for up to 120 days compared to the current 30 days in a bid to boost tourism, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Thursday.
"It is now being...
Rise In Killer Whales Sightings Linked To Melting Ice
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Scientists say rapidly-melting sea ice is partially to blame for a five-fold increase in killer whale sightings in some parts of the Canadian Arctic.
Jeff Higdon, a researcher with a joint...
Sea Creatures To Be Tracked Electronically
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In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.
Following pilot testing...
Methane Bubbling Through Seafloor Creates Undersea Hills
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According to a recent paper published by MBARI geologists and their colleagues, methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the floor of the Arctic Ocean....
Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Leviathan With New Ship
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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Leviathan is underway to stop the Japanese whaling fleets' illegal slaughter of over a thousand whales. With its newly acquired ship named the M/Y...
Ice Mass Snaps Free From Canada's Arctic
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A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major'' reason for the event.
The Ayles Ice Shelf-all 41...
Canada Investor Plans To Grow Coral Reef In Sri Lanka As An Export Business
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A Canada based company, Sea Culture Ltd plans to breed Coral Reef in Sri Lanka. The project is 100% externally funded by a group of investors from Canada and the principle aim is to demonstrate...
By 2048 All Current Fish, Seafood Species Projected To Collapse
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Marine species loss is accelerating and threatening human well-being, according to a report published in the 3 November issue of the journal Science published by AAAS, the nonprofit science...
Update: Please Boycott Canadian Seafood And Products
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Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.
Canada's 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial...
Canada Considering Further Restrictions On Seal Hunt Protesters
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Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn says officials are working on new restrictions to keep protesters farther from the East Coast seal hunt.
During an appearance before the Commons fisheries...
Congratulations To The Winners Of The Mirko Zanni "Water Vision" Book Giveaways!
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A few weeks ago we ran an audience survey and we wish to thank all who participated! We had 3 signed copies of Mirko Zanni's new book to give away to 3 random survey respondents. We want to...
Canada Will Not Join Call For Bottom-trawling Ban
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Canada will not support a moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters, putting it at odds with a growing number of countries now pressing for restrictions on the controversial fishing...
Congratulations to the Winners of the Mirko Zanni "Water Vision" Book Giveaways!
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A few weeks ago we ran an audience survey and we wish to thank all who participated! We had 3 signed copies of Mirko Zanni's new book to give away to 3 random survey respondents. We want to...
Inaction On Trawling Moratorium Just Isn't Good Enough, Canada!
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When the phone rang, I was cranky from hours of intense work on boring matters. "Hello!" I barked.
"Mr. Cameron?" said the voice on the phone. "It's Peter Stoffer, MP...
BSoUP International Focus On Competition 2006 Winners
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BSoUP's second International Competition was judged at the Society's August meeting. Entries were received from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Monaco, the...
Sally Thomson Named Manager Of Fin Photo - Nassau, Bahamas
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Stuart Cove's has announced that Sally Thomson has been named manager of the well-known Fin Photo operation. Thomson, a native of Montreal, Canada, has worked at Stuart Cove's for the last three...
Ottawa Won't Call For Ban On Trawling - Destroying Habitats
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Canada does not plan to join an international movement calling for a UN ban on bottom trawling on the high seas, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said Tuesday after the minister met...
Oceans Science: A Critical Mass Of Minds In Canada
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WE DESCRIBE Nova Scotia as Canada's ocean playground, so we have a unique responsibility to reverse the alarming deterioration of our marine ecosystems and resources.
Progress happens faster...
Costco Cannot Be Trusted - Sea Shepherd Calls For An International Boycott
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Costco is Now in the Baby Seal Killing Business!
Costco cowardly and falsely informed Sea Shepard that it removed the product because it was not making money. Yet, "Costco simply lied," said Sea...
Friends Of Animals Tells Tourists, "Boycott Canada Now, 'Til Seal Hunt Stops"
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With Canada preparing to go full-speed ahead on its annual seal hunt, Friends of Animals today unveiled an international tourism boycott to press the Canadian government to stop the kill....
Cathy Kangas Offers Canada $16 Million To End Seal Hunt
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Last year the Canadian seal slaughter realized $16 million in income to East Coast seal killers.
This year, Sea Shepherd member and supporter Kathy Kangas has offered $16 million to compensate...
Help Stop Canada's Seal Hunt
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Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed or shot without mercy this year alone-an annual harp seal slaughter subsidized by the Canadian government.
95% of the harp seals killed are...
Season Of Seal Pup Slaughter - What Is Wrong With Our World!
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BLOOD is spreading across the ice. Obscene scarlet on pure white.
At the stroke of 6am yesterday - right on schedule - Canada's annual slaughter of the seal pups got under way.
It's the...
10th Annual Great Lakes Underwater April 8 In Oswego
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The 10th annual Great Lakes Underwater event for scuba diving and shipwreck enthusiasts will be held April 8 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at SUNY Oswego. Speakers include noted maritime historian and...
Luna The Orca Believed Killed By Tugboat Collision
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Luna, the juvenile killer whale from Washington state waters who got lost in Canada's Nootka Sound five years ago, apparently died Friday when he was accidentally struck by a tugboat propeller,...
Canada Protecting Shipwrecks From Divers
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Divers wishing to explore the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald and two other Great Lakes shipwrecks in Canadian waters will need a license from the Ontario Ministry of Culture under a newly approved...
Nikon D200 On Track To Ship December 15
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The D200 is on track to ship on its planned worldwide release date of December 15, 2005, says Mary Mulder, National Sales Manager at Nikon Canada.
2A‚A°C Of Global Warming Is Too Hot For Canada's Fish And Forests
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Canada's Atlantic fish will be squeezed into ever smaller patches of cool water, endangered Atlantic salmon will be doomed, and key boreal forest species will be stranded as their natural habitats...
Scripps Scientists Participate In Historic First
Surface Vessel Voyage Across Canada Basin
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Scientists aboard pioneering icebreaking ships investigate ocean conditions in unexplored region to better understand Arctic's role in global climate change
Two ships taking part in a recently...
Greenpeace Says Canada Must Counter Nafo Mismanagement
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The international agency that manages the fishery on the high seas has done such a miserable job of protecting fish stocks that it needs to introduce a moratorium on the controversial practice of...
Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High
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Ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic hit an all-time high last year, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on one of the most sensitive and productive ecosystems in the world....
Selecting a DSLR and Underwater Housing
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Inevitably there comes a point for most underwater photographers when your focus shifts from the excitement of taking pictures underwater to the finer points of your equipment and technique that...
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