2 from ship that smashed Australian reef arrested
2010-04-14
updated 4:47 a.m. ET April 14, 2010 SYDNEY - Australian police arrested a Chinese ship captain and officer Wednesday and charged them with damaging the Great Barrier Reef, more than a week after their coal carrier ran aground and tore a two-mile (three-kilometer) gash in the protected area. The 755-foot (230-meter) Shen Neng 1 veered into protected waters and slammed into the reef on April 3, ripping a huge scar in the coral and possibly smearing it with toxic paint in damages that experts have...
Japan arrests whaling activist for boarding ship
2010-03-12
updated 12:14 a.m. ET March 12, 2010 TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for boarding a whaling ship without permission last month, in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling. Peter Bethune, a member of the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd activist group, is accused of jumping aboard the whaling vessel from a Jet Ski on Feb. 15 in Antarctic seas, where Japan was conducting its annual whale hunt. Boarding a Japanese vessel...
