Posts Tagged ‘ dolphins ’

Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA Today

26. Oktober 2012
Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA Today

Today Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas deposits in ...
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Baiji, Vaquitas, Extinction and You

25. Oktober 2012
Baiji, Vaquitas, Extinction and You

The now-extinct baiji ©Wikimedia Commons In this thought-provoking piece on the National Geographic's Ocean Views blog, Mediterranean Science Commission director general Frederic Briand discusses the precarious and uncertain fate of ocean creatures ...
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CEO Note: The Danger of Seismic Blasts

23. Oktober 2012
CEO Note: The Danger of Seismic Blasts

Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless Sometime early next year the Department of the Interior will decide whether to approve seismic airgun testing to search for oil and gas deposits in a wide swath of ocean, from Delaware to Florida. If the Department goes ahea...
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Help Stop the Assault on Whales and Dolphins With Just Your Facebook Photo

10. Oktober 2012
Help Stop the Assault on Whales and Dolphins With Just Your Facebook Photo

©Oceana Editor’s note: This blog by actress and environmentalist Victoria Principal was originally posted at NRDC’s OnEarth blog. I’ve been fascinated with marine life like whales and dolphins since I was a kid. Their grace and power, their b...
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Infographic: Seismic Airgun Testing

8. Oktober 2012
Infographic: Seismic Airgun Testing

The Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas in vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware to Florida with seismic airguns, an activity that, by the Department's own estimate, will injure 138,500 dolphi...
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Oceana Holds Seismic Airgun Protest

3. Oktober 2012
Oceana Holds Seismic Airgun Protest

Protesters brave the rain ©OCEANA Yesterday Oceana and its supporters braved foul weather to protest a truly foul idea. Armed with airhorns and megaphones they gave the Department of the Interior (DOI) a tiny preview of what is in store for the ocea...
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Wave of protests “sink” super trawlers off the coast of Tasmania

12. September 2012
Wave of protests “sink” super trawlers off the coast of Tasmania

What started as a ripple of concern over the pending arrival of a super trawler to be based in Devonport, Tasmania, soon became “a wave of outrage,” according to an article today in the Mercury. Tasmanian fishermen started the murmur of dis...
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Video: How Seismic Testing Works

27. August 2012
Video: How Seismic Testing Works

We've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbec...
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Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing Might Do

29. Juni 2012
Peru Dolphin Deaths Show What Seismic Testing Might Do

© Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by th...
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Two Years Later: Deformed Seafood and Sick Dolphins

20. April 2012
Two Years Later: Deformed Seafood and Sick Dolphins

A soapfish in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Oil has long stopped flowing from the leaking rig, but that doesn’t mean the disaster is over. Local fishermen have been making s...
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Oil Exploration Noise May Lead to Dolphin Strandings

13. April 2012
Oil Exploration Noise May Lead to Dolphin Strandings

© Oceana/Carlos Minguell In the last three months, more than 3,000 dolphins have washed ashore in Peru, most likely due to offshore oil exploration. Oil companies in the region often use sonar or acoustic soundings to detect oil beneath the floor of...
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Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill

27. März 2012
Deep-sea Coral Sickness Linked to Gulf Oil Spill

Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the D...
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