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WASHINGTON - US officials Thursday declared the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico to be of "national significance," signalling the full engagement by the federal government and possibly the military in containing the damage.
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- Two arrested with deer skin
- Two arrested with animal hides
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- Poachers kill elephant for ivory in Orissa
- Assam storm kills two, damages 1,500 homes
- Oil spill looms in Gulf of Mexico after rig disaster
- Plans percolating to reopen some San Francisco creeks that last saw daylight in Gold Rush era
- Rain, choppy seas halt oil sheen cleanup near rig that exploded, sunk off Louisiana coast
- Two drown, 150,000 people hit in Assam floods
- Oil-rig accidents fed push for new rules before latest blast; search called off for missing 11
- Coast Guard calls off search for 11 workers missing since oil rig blast off La. coast
- Agency became so worried about offshore drilling accidents it moved to create new safety rules
- 12 deer killed in six months on national highways
- Government moving to prevent radiation disasters
- 140 mn cubic metres ash spewed from Iceland volcano
- South Africa sets up team to tackle wildlife poaching
- Five charged with tiger poaching in Goa
- Two poachers held with deer carcasses in Uttar Pradesh
- Thunderstorm lashes Assam, 300 homes destroyed
- Now poachers go for leopards
- Zookeepers in China eat monkey meat
- Oil leakage off Orissa beach cleared
- Fresh radiation source found in Delhi, cops to scan area (Second Lead)
- 38 dead, over 100 injured in West Bengal storm (Second Lead)
- Oil leak from ship threatens endangered turtles
- Killer whale pod attacks gray whale in Puget Sound in view of whale-watching boat
- Leopard shot dead after it mauls 13 in West Bengal
- Radiation victims critical, bone marrow damaged
- Delhi market cleared of radioactive material (Second Lead)
- Poachers kill 150 rare animals in Peru
- Delhi market sanitised of radioactive material (Roundup)
- Search resumes for missing as toll hits 102 in Brazil rains
- Poachers held with peacock carcasses
- Work begins to free stranded Barrier Reef coal carrier
- Coast Guard: Pipeline spills 18,000 gallons of crude in wildlife refuge south of New Orleans
- Two villagers arrested for killing leopard
- Six arrested for killing cows in Delhi
- More sandstorms to hit China: Official
- Rare Sumatran tiger kills man after dragging him from hut in Indonesian village
- Floods recede in Fargo, but environmental hazards from livestock carcasses, dirty sand linger
- Snowmobiles, ATVs, even lobster boats get census workers into the nation’s most remote corners
- Sundarbans fisherman seriously injured in tiger attack
- Three arrested with leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh
- One whooping crane’s story of survival offers hope for the endangered species’ fight for life
- Safari elephant attacks tourists at Kaziranga, five injured
- Case slapped on five-star hotel for serving sea cucumber
- Two poachers held with leopard skins in Uttar Pradesh
- Elephant research centre destroyed in Kenya flash flood
- Passenger ships freed from Baltic sea ice
- Poachers kill young tusker in Orissa
- Bad weather closes Jammu-Srinagar highway
- Two women poachers nabbed with 130 tortoises
- Four leopard skins seized in Himachal
- Saboteurs spill 600,000 litre oil in Italy river
- List of maulings and other incidents involving captive animals in US
- Italy scrambles as oil spill reaches River Po, officials warn of ecological disaster
- Italy scrambles as tributary oil spill reaches Po river, officials warn of ecological disaster
- Goa businessmen want life imprisonment for illegal mining
- Exotic birds seized in Gujarat
- Five arrested for fishing in marine sanctuary
- Union Carbide’s waste disposal trial run a farce: Activists
- 25 killed in storms on Portuguese island
- Poachers kill tusker in Orissa
- Agreements to remove dams end battle over Oregon’s Klamath Basin water; farmers and fish win
- Conn. officer who shot rampaging chimp is denied workers’ comp claim for post-traumatic stress
- Tigress kills teenage girl in Uttar Pradesh
- Avalanches kill three soldiers in Siachen glacier
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- British TV fined for killng rat on reality show
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- New Zealand girl, 14, beats off shark attack
- Three held for trying to sell leopard skins
- Munnar’s illegal constructions to be demolished
- Crews work to protect sensitive wildlife areas after oil spill shuts down major Texas port
- Coast Guard: Vessels involved in Texas oil spill separated without additional oil leak
- Coast Guard: Oil spill from collision in Texas waterway ‘pretty much contained’
- Bison horns seized in West Bengal
- Two arrested with leopard skin in Uttar Pradesh
- Poverty, social ills, weak building standards and location create Haiti’s disastrous history
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