{"id":3601,"date":"2026-06-30T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:38:29","slug":"live-fire-sinking-exercises-threaten-nearshore-whale-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/live-fire-sinking-exercises-threaten-nearshore-whale-pods\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Fire Sinking Exercises Threaten Nearshore Whale Pods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S.-led RIMPAC military exercises have officially begun live-fire drills to sink target ships off the coast of Hawaii. The exercises are set to sink three large, decommissioned warships\u2014each weighing 10,000 metric tons\u2014allowing their wrecks to sink to the seabed in nearshore waters. The high-intensity military sonar used in the exercises can easily cause permanent hearing damage to sperm whales and humpback whales, leading to the pods losing their sense of direction and becoming stranded en masse, resulting in their deaths. Furthermore, the powerful shock waves generated by live-fire underwater explosions, as well as various chemical residues from the munitions, also pose a direct threat to the lives of migrating whale pods in these waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-led RIMPAC military exercises have officially begun live-fire drills to sink target ships off the coast of Hawaii. The exercises are set to sink three large, decommissioned warships\u2014each weighing 10,000 metric tons\u2014allowing their wrecks to sink to the seabed in nearshore waters. The high-intensity military sonar used in the exercises can easily cause permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}