NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 26, 2006 (ENS) - Plaintiffs have agreed to a $330 million settlement with Murphy Oil over damages from a massive oil spill considered the worst environmental disaster stemming from Hurricane Katrina.
The first real-data study of sharks harvested for their valuable fins estimates as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide -- three times as many as originally reported by the United Nations, according to a paper published as the cover story in the October 2006 edition of Ecology Letters.
The water slapped gently against the side of our sea kayaks as we paddled out from Skull Cove in the early morning sunshine in search of grey whales. They make an annual commute which starts 3,000 miles away in Mexico's Baja California and ends somewhere inside the Arctic Circle.
By Leonard Doyle The water slapped gently against the side of our sea kayaks as we paddled out from Skull Cove in the early morning sunshine in search of grey whales.
Mary Ann and Gordon Bartholomew of Anchorage recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A dinner for immediate family members was at the home of Tom Bartholomew.
I was filling up the truck Friday when the clouds cleared and the sun came out. The gas station attendant was in her rain gear, and I was wearing rubber boots. We both smiled.
If over the next few days the rain deities smile on us with substantial precipitation - not flood-level stuff, mind you, but enough to color the rivers just a little and give those coho waiting in the bay a sniff of fresh, cool water - then by the middle of next week we should be up to our arm pits in silvers, which would bring a huge sigh of relief from the folks running the big Everett Coho
SCOTLAND would become an independent country if a referendum was held tomorrow, according to a new opinion poll which will reignite the political debate over Scotland's future.
Some wonder whether Missourian fishing for nomination. BOSTON (AP) - Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt took a secret vacation to Alaska this past week with Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but salmon wasn’t the only thing on the agenda.
