Joel Taylor – 14th September, 2010 A British-led team of divers have surfaced after diving a world record-breaking 8.8km (5.5 miles) into the unexplored Pozo Azul cave system in Spain. Explorers Jason Mallinson, Rick Stanton and John Volanthen, along with Dutch caver Rene Houben, charted new territory in a 50-hour voyage which saw them spend [...]

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By Isaac Davison, Amelia Wade and Paul Harper 9:22 AM Thursday Sep 23, 2010 (NZ Herald) Surviving pilot whales from a large pod stranded in the Far North may have to be trucked to a more sheltered beach to be refloated. Around 80 whales yesterday beached themselves over 5km at Spirits Bay, 90km north of Kaitaia. [...]

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By Paul Harper 4:20 PM Wednesday Sep 22, 2010 Department of Conservation staff are calling a mass pilot whale stranding at Spirits Bay in Northland “unprecedented”. Seventy-four whales are stranded across two kilometres on the remote beach north of Kaitaia. So far nine have been successfully refloated. There are up to 50 whales just off-shore. When [...]

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By CLAIRE CONNELL – The Marlborough Express New Zealand King Salmon is having to turn away $400,000 of overseas orders each week because it does not have enough salmon, so it wants to use the water area for one of its Marlborough Sounds mussel farms for a salmon farm. However, the resource consent approved by [...]

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By Dr Rebecca McLeod 11:18 AM Friday Sep 17, 2010 (NZ Herald) Good friends of mine have recently returned from an expedition to the Auckland Islands, a couple of days sail south of Bluff, where they were researching Southern right whales. In the long dark winter months while we are flat out hibernating, quaffing red wine [...]

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