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US Navy seeks to raise allowed number of accidental whale collisions

The Navy requested a cap increase on the number of marine mammals it is allowed to unintentionally harm during Pacific training.

By Jonathan Lehrfeld

6 months ago

Gonna need a bigger boat: what the Navy does when whales go rogue

While there has indeed been an uptick in Orca interference near Spanish and Portugese waters, they are exceedingly rare.

By Sarah Sicard

9 months ago

Stranded whales die again on Hawaiian shores

But this time Navy sonar likely played no role in their deaths.

5 years ago

Lummi Tribe’s efforts to save orcas include ending Navy tests

The tribe says it will measure the sea’s health by the number of salmon using 1985 levels as a baseline.

5 years ago

Did Turkish naval exercises kill dolphins?

Spike in dolphin deaths coincides with "Blue Homeland" sonar and live ammunition drills.

5 years ago

How the armed forces inadvertently helped to decimate, then save, the osprey (feathery kind)

Along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, nearly 20,000 Ospreys now arrive to nest each spring — the largest concentration of breeding pairs in the world. Two-thirds of them nest on buoys and channel markers maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, who have become de facto Osprey guardians.

By Alan Poole, Cornell University

5 years ago

This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier

Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career

By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine

5 years ago

Fuel gushed out of sunken vessel

The Coast Guard is leading efforts to contain and clean up fuel and engine oil spilled from a fishing boat that sank in southern Alaska.

By Carl Prine

5 years ago

Navy will help save right whales

Starting in mid-November, the Navy will expand areas off the East Coast where it limits the use of sonar and explosives. It also will broadcast more information on sightings to prevent military and commercial ships from striking right whales.

5 years ago

Inupiat town mourns hunters killed as they towed whale home

Despite their grief, locals still had to butcher the animal when it reached Utqiagvik.

6 years ago

Officials euthanize bird shot aboard Coast Guard museum cutter

Authorities arrested 22-year-old Josiah Fetzer on charges of cruelty to animals and violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

6 years ago

In reversal, Pentagon now says it backs GOP measure on birds

In an abrupt reversal, the Pentagon said Thursday it supports a Republican proposal in a defense policy bill that would bar the Fish and Wildlife Service from using the Endangered Species Act to protect two chicken-like birds in the western half of the U.S.

6 years ago

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