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Whales and the Knife's Edge

June 12, 2009

Posted by Michael Jasny in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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cetaceans, marinemammals, navy, sonar, thebends, whales

One of the big questions in marine mammal research these days is how Navy mid-frequency sonar kills marine mammals.  Some scientists have looked to decompression sickness, or "the bends," for an answer, since investigators have repeatedly found bends-like symptoms in...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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