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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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 ...

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Earlier this year, NOAA said there was no conclusive tie between sonar use during RIMPAC 2004 and the congregation of melon-headed whales in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. Sonar can affect marine mammals under ...

The Navy’s use of sonar during maritime exercises may have contributed to the mass stranding of more than 150 melon-headed whales in Hawaii’s Hanalei Bay two years ago, government scientists said.

The civilian agency in charge of marine issues has sharply challenged the Navy's plans to build an underwater sonar training range in the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the military significantly ...