Sentences with phrase «mass strandings»

When investigating mass strandings of whales, likely the result of the use of navy sonar in open waters,

Our militaries deploy sonar that induces the bends in dolphins, porpoises, and whales, so that they arrive in mass strandings on beaches with blood on their brains and coming from their ears; with air bubbles in their lungs; with all the signs that unfortunate divers display when they rise too soon through water.

We saw Norman Reedus - apparently portraying the game's protagonist - wake up on a beach under a grey sky, surrounded by dead sealife engaged in some sort of mass stranding event.

Thousands of sea creatures blanketed the beach in Kent in one of the biggest mass strandings on record in the UK.

Fifty - five false killer whales were stranded on a South African beach over the weekend, but scientists still don't fully understand why mass strandings happen, and if we should be worried about them

Plus, a record of mass strandings from 1990 to 2009 showed the unusual nature of these more than 1,000 dead dolphins in just three years.

The investigators now believe a predator such as a killer whale or shark may be responsible for the mysterious mass stranding.

While teaching a group of volunteers about marine stewardship one morning, researcher Ken Balcomb was confronted with a crisis the likes of which he'd never seen: an inexplicable mass stranding of beaked whales.

«Scientists have documented mass strandings; mortal injuries, including lesions and hemorrhaging in vital organs; and behavior changes in numerous marine mammal species following naval sonar training exercises around the world,» the complaint stated.

There are many reasons we can speculate as to the cause of the stranding, but not to identify naval exercises as a POTENTIAL source of disturbance causing them to live mass strand, would be negligent.

Both human - derived pollutants and natural toxins, such as neurotoxins from algae, are implicated in mass strandings.

From June 2010 through June 2013 there were four mass strandings of dead dolphins on Gulf coast beaches stretching from the Texas — Louisiana border into Florida — three after the beginning of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that saw BP's Macondo well blow out.

Four distinct time horizons exist within the site, indicating that the mass strandings occurred repeatedly, and the relatively complete condition of the skeletons suggests that the death site was protected from scavengers and other forces that would distribute the bones.

Unraveling interactions and events in biological scenarios typically requires ecological perspectives; perhaps space weather, they thought, was one necessary component of the grander ecological conditions that lead to mass stranding events.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

In the meantime, the team will continue to inspect the layers of data for interactions and patterns, deepening their understanding of mass strandings and setting a precedent for future interdisciplinary studies.

What may have killed so many whales all at once is a mystery, the researchers say, but causes could include disease, environmental stress, or even a mass stranding while chasing schools of squid into a freshwater bay.

What led to a mass stranding of whales millions of years ago?

The mass stranding interpretation is «speculative but plausible,» Martin says.

Pollution and marine noise have also been implicated in mass strandings.

Nonetheless, he agrees that a pursuing predator could have caused the mass stranding.

Since cetaceans use sonar for navigation, it may have scrambled their own signals, effectively leaving them in the dark, leading to mass strandings.

Not only will you have stranded assets in fossil fuels you will have «mass stranding of existing vehicles».

Finally, the author concludes with this quote from his purported expert: «When there's a mass stranding, it's always wise to look at possible human effects.

We also have the rampage of diseased rhesus monkeys in Florida, the mass stranding of dolphins on Cape Cod, the tragic death of a rhino during an anti-poaching destination and more.