<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b0b263eb-c266-4add-9d96-d14711ec1f17/EA463692-B994-4424-A595-F62E56732580/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html" href="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html" style="font-size: 11px;">en.epochtimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html"><H1> Man-Made Noise in World's Seas Threatens Wildlife </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.epochtimes.com/img/CA74C1AE-A0B6-40C5-975D-2E9EBD9576E0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html">Man-made noise in the world's seas and oceans is becoming an increasing threat to whales, dolphins and turtles who use sound to communicate, forage for food and find mates,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html"><P class="MsoNormal">Rumbling ship engines, seismic surveys by oil and gas companies, and <A target="_blank" href="http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-10-28/33859.html">intrusive military sonars</A> are triggering an "acoustic fog and cacophony of sounds" underwater, scaring marine animals and affecting their behaviour.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html">"There is now evidence linking loud underwater noises with some major strandings of marine mammals, especially deep diving beaked whales," </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html">there are also growing indications that certain tissue damage in cetaceans is linked to noise.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html">Experts suspect that startled animals may tend to dive erratically and suffer something similar to human divers getting the "bends"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/science-technology/noise-seas-wildlife-8044.html">the distance over which blue whales can communicate has been cut by 90 percent as a result of higher noise levels. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EA463692-B994-4424-A595-F62E56732580/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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