A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the US Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar in the nation’s oceans that could harm whales and other marine life. The ninth circuit court of appeals reversed a lower court decision upholding approval granted in 2012 for the Navy to use low-frequency sonar for training, testing […]
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Poll: Should stricter sonar controls be imposed on the US navy?
Six whales have washed ashore in northern California in the past two months, prompting headlines around the world and attracting droves of tourists, curious about the massive mammals so suddenly out of their natural element. According to a California Academy of Sciences (CAS) necropsy one of those whales, a 32ft female humpback that washed ashore […]