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Top marine life pollution issues

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What's Up With The Oceans, Whales and Pollution?

By: Joan Barton

"Whales and pollution should not go hand in hand. However, the fact is they do, whales are greatly affected by human actions that bring together whales and pollution... Whales and pollution through sound is of serious concern explorations for petroleum causes continual underwater booms. Military operations using lower-level sonar that can cast up to 230 dB near the source. The activity from cruise ships, ocean liners, tankers and submarines, all contributing to noise pollution that can seriously affect the marine life including whales. Pollution by sound can cause whales to abandon natural habitat and go off course also throwing off their ability to hunt affecting whales communications systems through loud background sounds, the blue whale in particular, whose sound can travel over 1000 miles, enabling it to communicate with others now because of sound pollution, its range is only a 10th the size of what it was." Read the entire entry.