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Flying whales
2018-04-06 01:01:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Airbus's huge new super-transporter plane can carry two passenger jet wings instead of one.
Skeleton Technologies joins Flying Whales program to develop next generation of heavy-lift, large-capacity airships
2016-07-05 12:56:02| Green Car Congress
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Crab traps pose growing threat to whales along U.S. West Coast
2016-07-02 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fisherman loads crab pots onto a fishing vessel at Fishermen's Wharf ahead of the opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season, in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 14, 2013. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo left1 of 2right A seal swims up to a fishing vessel loaded with crab pots at Fishermen's Wharf ahead of the opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season, in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 14, 2013. LOS ANGELES A blue whale found tangled in plastic rope off California...
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Eight pilot whales dead in mass stranding in Indonesia
2016-06-16 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eight pilot whales have died after a mass stranding on the coast of Indonesias main island of Java that sparked a major rescue operation, an official said Thursday. Thirty-two of the short-finned pilot whales came ashore during high tide early Wednesday in Probolinggo, East Java province. At first there were just one or two whales swimming near the shore, and the nature of whales is that if they are sick they will come near the shore, Dedy Isfandi, the head of the local maritime and fisheries...
Rescuers struggle to save beached whales in Indonesia
2016-06-16 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Most of the 29 whales trapped in an Indonesian mangrove swamp on Thursday managed to free themselves or were gently helped out to sea as the tide rose, fisheries officials said. Villagers on the east of Java island helped fisheries staff free the pilot whales that became trapped at low tide. "Today, of the 29 beached whales, seven died, four were helped back out to sea and 18 were able to swim back themselves," the World Wildlife Fund said in a statement. Officials said they did not know...
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