Posts Tagged ‘scientific whaling’

• The ice melts so fast that scientists had to abandon their polar station

  A group of Russian scientists had to abandon their polar station near Svalbard when the ice their station was standing on started to melt away, three months too early. The polar station was placed on a huge flake of ice …

• An end to “scientific” whaling in sight?

  Well, that’s a maybe. The Australian government is hoping that a new proposal from them will be able to cover up a loophole that let’s Japan conduct whaling for “scientific reasons”. The Australian environmental minister Peter Garett said today that …