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A whale that appeared to be dead washed ashore on Atlantic Beach, Long Island Wednesday. [snip] Typically, when dead mammals wash onto beaches, marine experts are brought in to assess the animal.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - The Defense Department, which controls 28 million acres of land across the nation that it uses for combat exercises and weapons testing, has been moving on a variety of fronts to reduce requirements that it safeguard the environment on that land. In Congress, the Pentagon has won exemptions in the last two years from parts of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. It has sought in recent years to exempt military activities, for three years, from compliance with parts of the Clean Air Act. Also, the Pentagon, which controls about 140 of...

SEATTLE - "This is very severe hemorrhaging." Ken Balcomb says new pictures of the brain of a harbor porpoise that died in Puget Sound last May are very telling. The pictures show signs of severe trauma. "This is another smoking gun for me that we've got a consistent trauma here," says whale researcher Balcomb. Balcomb says the evidence convinces him that Navy sonar killed the porpoises. Government scientists examined 11 porpoises that washed ashore. But they won't release any evidence until all the lab results are in. They tell KOMO 4 News that will take at least two more months....