For the best part of half a century, a 41-foot humpback whale named Luna swam up and down the East Coast.
Then on Jan. 30, 2023, Luna washed up dead on Long Island, New York.
He was the tenth whale to strand on beaches in New York and New Jersey in nine weeks. Environmentalists, politicians and ordinary citizens loudly wondered if the construction of offshore wind turbines was killing them.
Apostolos Gerasoulis, a Rutgers professor emeritus of computer science who co-created the search engine that powers Ask.com, now says the answer is yes.
‘Absolutely, 100 percent, offshore wind kills whales,’ he says.