Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar

Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by bradL on Monday December 23, 2013 @03:48AM (#6953616)

We are probably living in one of Earth's great mass extinctions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by 3am on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:58AM (#6954864)

We are _causing_ one of Earth's mass extinctions.

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by arethuza on Monday December 23, 2013 @04:37AM (#6953694)

Is Fukushima really worse than the decades of nuclear weapons testing carried out by the US, France and the UK in the Pacific?

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by code_duck on Monday December 23, 2013 @11:30AM (#6955037)

I asked that question a few days ago and received a detailed answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6939681

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by amalag on Monday December 23, 2013 @07:15AM (#6953944)

Fukushima would be like decades of dirty nuclear bomb testing.

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by code_duck on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:06PM (#6955247)

Blowing up islands with nuclear weapons is pretty dirty, isn't it?

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by arethuza on Monday December 23, 2013 @04:55AM (#6953725)

And I have no idea whether Fukushima is actually worse or not - I was trying to ask a genuine question, not be snarky. :-)

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by gaius on Monday December 23, 2013 @05:09AM (#6953743)

There are two factors there really, the nuclear stuff, and the material that was swept out to sea from the surrounding area which would have happened whether or not the reactor was there.

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by epaladin on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:48AM (#6954811)

I wish there was a way to know what the actual condition of Fukushima is. News reports have been so conflicting, it seems the only way to know what's going on would be to go and measure things yourself.

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