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Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say. Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.

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OnlyTheTruth
April 30, 2007, 4:07 p.m.
We know that primary productivity in the oceans is decreasing as a result of climate change. Therefore it should come as no surprise when creatures on up the food chain suffer.
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Teech
April 30, 2007, 11:04 p.m.
Hmmmmmmm......Couldn't be the result of the "Blue Skies" legislation that removed all pollution controls and allows unlimited dumping of toxins into the ocean so our U.S. based corporations can eke out a meager profit and keep their CEO's in golden parachutes? Naaaaaahhhh. That's Libspeak. It's just part of a natural cycle. And what the hell.....when we can't eat fish anymore because they glow in the dark, we'll sell them to Saudi Arabia and Japan as novelty items!
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the99percentsolution
May 1, 2007, 1:59 a.m.
Correlate this with the Navy's sonar program. The use of the ocean-breaching sonar had been held up in court, but thanks to Bush's court appointees, the Navy was allowed to proceed with its sonar blast project. This sonar blast is intense enough to travel the through the Pacific Ocean, ostensibly able to detect and map all submarine activity. The price for this military intelligence? The lives of countless marine mammals found beached and dying, no longer able to navigate, their own sonar capabilities obliterated with the blast.