From National Geographic, April 11, 2013 Editor’s Note: Most highlights by N911 staff The dead sea otters arrived at Melissa Miller’s Santa Cruz, California, lab with bright-yellow eyes and gums, their livers destroyed. One by one, Miller, a marine-wildlife veterinarian,… Read More ›
Dolphins
Hardy Jones on Massive Die-Off of Peru Dolphins
By Hardy Jone @ BlueVoice.org During 2012 and early 2013 BlueVoice, working with ORCA/Peru, confirmed widespread hunting of dolphins in Peru. I personally traveled to Peru in March and December of 2012. And in 2013, BlueVoice funded surveys that document… Read More ›
More Marine Life Washes Up on Peruvian Coastline
From Yahoo News: Feb. 23, 2013 Experts are trying to work out why nearly 100 dead animals and birds have washed up on a Peruvian coastline. The bodies of 18 sea turtles, 22 sea lions, eight dolphins, 16 angular… Read More ›
A Noisy Ocean — Human Caused Ruckus
From the New York Times By WILLIAM J. BROAD When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms, or 150… Read More ›
Impacts of Seismic Survey Blasting on Marine Environment
By Sue Arnold CEO, California Gray Whale Coalition Photos by Charmaine Coimbra One of the most important outcomes of the PG&E HESS – whichever way it goes – is the raising of awareness on the issue of underwater noise… Read More ›
Coastal Community Protests Decibel Levels, Intensity of Proposed Seismic Testing
By Charmaine Coimbra Citizens along the Central Coast of California have joined forces to halt the proposed seismic testing in the ocean waters that lap up against the Diablo Nuclear Plant, as reported in a recent Neptune 911 post. The… Read More ›
Marine Mammals on NMFS “Take” List for Seismic Survey
Opinion by Charmaine Coimbra Neptune 911’s mission is to bring information about the oceans to the everyday-person—persons like me. It’s goal is to help us understand how what we do affect the ocean’s well being and that an unhealthy ocean… Read More ›
Whales Too Big for the Ocean Traffic and Oil Research?
Editor’s Note: Whales are in the news. The following two articles show that perhaps the oceans are not big enough for whales and us. Shipping Traffic in Sri Lanka Injures Blue Whale From the New York Times By ERIK OLSEN… Read More ›
Seismic Exploration Suspected in Marine Mammal Mass Mortality
From BlueVoice.org by Hardy Jones Friday, June 1, 2012 BlueVoice has learned from a highly reliable source that in 2008 there was a mass mortality event (MME) of melon-headed whales (a species of dolphin) on the coast of Madagascar. This… Read More ›
“Acoustic Impact” Indicated in Peru Dolphin Die-Off
From Mother Jones By JuliaWhitty Environmental CorrespondentJulia Whitty is the environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. Her latest book is Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. For more of her stories, click here. RSS | Twitter … Read More ›