Do solar storms cause whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings?

Lori Keesey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center A long-standing mystery among marine biologists is why otherwise healthy whales, dolphins, and porpoises - collectively known as cetaceans - end up getting stranded along coastal areas worldwide. Could severe solar storms, which affect Earth's magnetic fields, be confusing their internal compasses and causing them to lose their way?…