Science fair to ban experiments on animals from 2014
PTI
New Delhi: Iris Science Fair, one of India’s largest student science competition, will not allow any kind of experimentation on animals from 2014 as its organisers have decided to put a ban on their use.
The decision to amend the rules of the competition by Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) and Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd came following discussions with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), India …
Zee News – September 29, 2013, 16:42
zeenews.india.com/news/science…
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Court Rules National Marine Fisheries Service Failed to Protect Whales and Dolphins from Navy Sonar
Staff infoZine
According to the ruling, the Fisheries Service must now reassess the permits using the latest science, which could trigger a requirement that the Navy do more to protect whales and dolphins in its ongoing training exercises.
Eureka, CA – infoZine – A federal court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington …
Kansas City infoZine – September 29, 2013
www.infozine.com/news/stories/…
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Russian court jails six more Greenpeace activists, raising total to 26
Lynn Berry
MOSCOW — The Associated Press
A court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk sent six more Greenpeace activists to jail for two months on Sunday and showed no sign that the remaining two activists would be treated any differently for a protest at a drilling platform in Arctic waters …
The Globe and Mail – Sep. 29 2013, 11:05 AM EDT
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/w…
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Sonar Noise Behind Whale Deaths
by Kieran Mulvaney
The deaths of over 100 melon-headed whales, which stranded on the shores of a lagoon in northwest Madagascar in 2008, were likely primarily triggered by a form of sonar being deployed by an ExxonMobil survey vessel, according to a scientific review panel.
This is the first known marine mammal mass stranding event to be closely associated with what are known as high-frequency mapping sonar systems; but it is merely the latest in a long line of incidents in which industrial noise in the ocean has been implicated in deaths and injuries to marine mammals, and specifically cetaceans …
Discovery News – Sep 28, 2013 02:55 PM ET
news.discovery.com/earth/ocean…
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