7/23/2016
Blue whales can now live in peace and relative quiet after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of San Francisco ruled out the U.S. Navy's request to use ...
7/19/2016
However, sonar is detrimental to the health of marine animals, especially dolphins and whales. The sonar transmitters confuse the animals' ...
However, sonar is detrimental to the health of marine animals, especially dolphins and whales. The sonar transmitters confuse the animals' ...
The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in California has ruled that the low-frequency active sonar (LFA) systems used by the US Navy for training ...
That can interfere over hundreds of miles with some marine mammals like whales, dolphins, and walruses that rely on underwater sound for ...
Whales and dolphins emit noises, then use their incredibly sensitive hearing to read the reflected sound waves. Tests have shown that bottlenose ...
Sonar approved for use by the US Navy broke marine laws, a US appeals court has ruled. The low-frequency active sonar, approved in 2012, is used ...
But it can also harm whales, dolphins and walruses that rely on underwater sound for navigating, catching prey and communicating, according to ...
If you were a blue whale, the water in most of the world's oceans would be so murky that you wouldn't be able to see your own flukes. Which is why ...
7/18/2016
That sonar harms marine mammals like whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses. On Friday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in California found ...
The HSUS, along with several other animal and environmental protection organizations, has won yet another legal victory for animals – this time a ...
The use of low-frequency sonar in the world's oceans has been a point of controversy and contention … and no shortage of court decisions.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Military sonar activity will necessarily harm marine life, but the United States has not shown that it did enough to mitigate ...
The U.S. Navy will no longer be allowed to use low-frequency active sonar to detect the presence of submarines in areas frequented by certain marine ...
7/17/2016
The 2012 rules adopted by the National Marine Fisheries Service permitted Navy sonar use to affect about 30 whales and two dozen pinnipeds, ...
7/16/2016
The US Navy has wrongly used sonar at levels that could harm whales, seals, dolphins and walruses and disrupt their feeding and mating, ruled a ...
The sonar being used in the nation's oceans were having an adverse effect of dolphins, whales, walruses and other marine mammals. A federal ...
And that has a big affect on ocean life, especially mammals like whales and dolphins that use sound to communicate, move around and locate food.
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar that could harm whales and other ...
Rules set in 2012 by the National Marine Fisheries Service permitted the US Navy's sonar use to affect about 30 whale species and two dozen ...
7/15/2016
Dolphins in front of US Navy ship Benfold. Marine life will now be protected from Navy sonar. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Reuters. Associated Press.
The US Navy's sonar levels may harm whales and other marine mammals in the world's oceans, so they must be scaled back, a San Francisco federal ...
FILE- In this Jan. 18, 2014 photo, an endangered female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle, as seen from a ...
A pod of killer whales, bottom, swims near a whale-watching boat and the Everett, Wash. based destroyer USS Shoup in the Haro Strait near San Juan ...
U.S. officials have wrongly allowed the Navy to use sonar at levels that could harm whales and other marine mammals in the world's oceans, a federal ...