“Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all”

“Conducting necropsies on beached whales to pin down a cause of death is made difficult by the animals’ layer of blubber and by the fact that organs can literally cook inside a stranded whale. But it is starkly clear that human activity—in the form of ships that hit whales or fishing gear that wraps around them—is often to blame.”

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I thought it had been pretty well established that naval/marine sonar is a major contributor?

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00295/full

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