Seismic Blasting Devastates Ocean's Most Vital Organisms

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By Natural Resources Defense CouncilJun 23, 2017, 12:37 pm103 pts
By Francine Kershaw Seismic airguns exploding in the ocean in search for oil and gas have devastating impacts on zooplankton, which are critical food sources for marine mammals, according to a new study in Nature . The blasting decimates one of the ocean's most vital groups of organisms over huge areas and may…

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