In a Navy-vs.-whales case watched closely by environmentalists from California to the Puget Sound area, President Bush on Wednesday exempted the Navy from some environmental laws. The fight is over ...

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.

Two summers ago more than 150 disoriented melon-headed whales stranded themselves in Hanalei Bay while the U.S. Navy and its allies used sonar in a nearby war game. An April report by the National ...

The state government's leading marine mammal expert yesterday called for the Navy to stop or severely limit tests of high-intensity sonar in Washington's inland waters because it appears to be harming ...

Over the objections of Washington state officials and orca advocates, the U.S. Navy is steaming ahead with a plan for seven more years of testing sonar and explosives in waters off the Northwest coast ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over how to resolve a long-running dispute over whether environmental laws may be used to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect ...

Jacques Cousteau called oceans "the silent world," but ships and sonar make the seas louder each year. This morning, the Supreme Court hears argument on whether U.S. law can limit Navy noise, as ...