Defense Environment Alert -- The Navy plans to increase its annual funding for research into the effects of sonar to $18 million, according to a high-level Navy officer who says the service's use of 29 mitigation measures to prevent harm to marine mammals is working. Rear Adm. Lawrence Rice, director of the environmental readiness division for the chief of naval operations, recently defended the Navy's record on its use of sonar, saying no incidents to marine mammals have resulted since...
