Air-guns used in offshore oil exploration can kill tiny marine life

Nature
By Jeff TollefsonJun 21, 2017, 8:00 pm48 pts
Lethal effects from pulses of sound used to probe the sea floor can travel over a kilometer. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22167

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