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Scientists to Obama: Less Ocean Noise, Please

October 7, 2009

Posted by Michael Jasny in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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bluewhales, dolphins, nationaloceanpolicy, obama, oceannoise, okeanos, sonar

If, like me, you're desperately concerned about the fate of the oceans, probably the most hopeful development this year is President Obama's launch of a new National Oceans Policy.  The task force he convened in June recently came out with...continued

Hawaii's Resident Whales

September 30, 2009

Posted by Michael Jasny in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
dolphins, endangeredspecies, hawaii, killerwhales, nmfs, whales

This morning NRDC filed a petition under the Endangered Species Act to protect one of Hawaii's most imperiled species: the near-shore population of false killer whales.  As my colleague Andrew wrote earlier, the listing petition has much to say...continued

Navy Games

April 9, 2009

Posted by Michael Jasny in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
dolphins, hawaii, marinemammals, navysonar, whales, whalestrandings

The Obama Administration has put a premium on good science in environmental policy, but some folks in the Navy don't seem to have gotten the message. In a study soon to be published in Biology Letters, researchers exposed a captive...continued

Michael Jasny
Michael Jasny
Senior Policy Analyst
Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica
I grew up in an industrialized part of New Jersey, unconcerned about environmental issues (or,...
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