"Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all"

"Conducting necropsies on beached whales to pin down a cause of death is made difficult by the animals’ layer of blubber and by the fact that organs can literally cook inside a stranded whale. But it is starkly clear that human activity—in the form of ships that hit whales or fishing gear that wraps around them—is often to blame."

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    My hypothesis would be that once construction is finished, the inverse could be true, because the foundations provide shelter for a whole ecosystem (see abandoned oil rigs) which might trickle down to bigger fish (or mammals in this case).