The United States is facing increasing international pressure to place limitations on the use of military sonar, the underwater equivalent of radar that has been linked to mass strandings of whales.

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NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on a request by the U.S. Navy to operate its Low Frequency Active Sonar on the world's open oceans. The Navy's Surveillance Towed ...

Marine mammal “hot spots” in areas including Southern California’s coastal waters may become off limits to testing of a type of Navy sonar linked to the deaths of whales under a plan announced this ...

Most marine animals use sound to navigate, feed, find mates and communicate with each other when in deep waters. The Navy has been very insistent that they can use an ultra-loud sonar that is safe for ...

WASHINGTON – Residents of Hanalei Bay on the Hawaiian island of Kauai woke up last weekend to a distressing sight: As many as 200 melon-headed whales, a small and sociable species that usually stays ...

[Photo of a pair of Cuvier's beaked whales by Jenny Trickey, taken under SEMARNAT permit SGPA/DGVS/000451/18.] A new study by scientists at NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

This article was written by Discover's Andrew Moseman. Whales and the U.S. Navy have tangled repeatedly over the past years over charges that the Navy's sonar exercises disorient or injure whales and ...

A pair of recent studies shows the unique responses of different whales to sonar, typically used by navies to detect submarines. Sonar sounds have been linked to hearing loss, deadly mass strandings ...