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Are offshore wind farms harming whales?

Are offshore wind farms harming whales?

Update: 2025-06-18
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WHOI whale biologist Mark Baumgartner weighs in on the impacts of offshore wind development.

Written by Alison Pearce Stevens. Narrated by Rowan Quince Buckton.

Whale call recordings were taken from the Watkins Marine Mammal Database. They include (in order) the humpback whale and the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Read along at https://go.whoi.edu/offshorewindwhale

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Are offshore wind farms harming whales?

Are offshore wind farms harming whales?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution