BP Oil Disaster at One Year: Assessing Impacts on Marine Mammals
At least since the 1969 Santa Barbara blowout, we have tended to understand the environmental calamity of major spills through images of oiled wildlife lying...
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Now It's Octopus and Squid
One concern we’ve frequently voiced about ocean noise pollution is the potential for impacts across a wide range of species, up and down the food chain. A new...
Dolphin Die-Off: How Big Is the Iceberg?
Counting dead marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico, or any body of water, is extremely difficult because most marine mammals never make it to shore. They...
Three Urgent Questions about the Die-Off of Gulf Dolphins
By now about 80 bottlenose dolphins , half of them newborns and stillbirths, have washed ashore in the northern Gulf of Mexico since this year’s calving season...
Dolphin Deaths in the Gulf
Six months after the Deepwater Horizon was capped, biologists in the Gulf are still trying to understand what has happened to their region. One thing they’ve...
Blackbirds and Whales
On New Year’s Eve, not long before midnight, some 5000 blackbirds began, literally, dropping from the sky in the small town of Beebe, Arkansas. The die-off...