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  • China says "spy turtles" and "spy fish" deployed by foreign intelligence agencies snooping in its waters

    06/13/2026 9:33:06 AM PDT · by DFG · 23 replies
    CBS News ^ | 06/12/2026 | Frank Andrews, Qian Zhao
    Foreign intelligence services are using "spy turtles" and "spy fish" to snoop on China, the country's Ministry of State Security said Friday. "An unseen covert war of espionage is currently unfolding" in the seas around China's coast, the ministry wrote in a post on the WeChat social media platform. In recent years, overseas spy agencies have been "continuously collecting and stealing sensitive maritime data through various new types of espionage equipment," it said, including "spy turtles and spy fish." In certain Chinese waters, "relatively large living marine animals have been fitted with sensors to swim in specific areas, collect ocean...
  • Alaska seeks to block U.S. protections for belugas

    01/14/2009 3:33:09 PM PST · by redk · 30 replies · 1,407+ views
    Reuters ^ | Jan 14, 2009 | Yereth Rosen
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Five months after suing to keep polar bears off the U.S. threatened species list, Alaska's government said Wednesday it plans to issue a similar challenge to block federal protections for a struggling population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, a mature oil-producing basin. Former vice presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin said the energy-rich state believes the Endangered Species Act protections for belugas announced in October by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are unwarranted.