By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
Many unexplained strandings and deaths of marine mammals could be caused by soundwaves from underwater military sonar equipment, zoologists believe.
They think the sonar signals may cause bubbles in the animals' tissue, in much the same way as divers can suffer decompression sickness known as "the bends".
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists describe how 14 whales died during a naval exercise in the Canary Islands.
They say sonar use may need to be regulated to protect the mammals.
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I certainly hope they find a way to work with nature, and
not against it.
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