Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds – the ‘thwop’, ‘muah’, and ‘boop’s of a humpback whale, for example, or the boing of a minke whale.

The ocean holds secrets we're only beginning to understand. Beneath the surface, endangered whales navigate an increasingly ...

The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud ...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are partnering with the first utility-scale offshore wind project approved in the U.S., Vineyard Wind, to gather data on underwater sounds and how they ...

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Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

2023 was the hottest year recorded on planet Earth – and that includes the world’s oceans, where records fell like dominos. Last week, around 5000 scientists gathered in New Orleans for the American ...

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...

A hydrophone, or underwater microphone, is typically used to record acoustics. The Ocean Observatories Initiative, a project ...

Whales and other mammals rely on a balance of underwater sounds to survive. Climate change could be throwing off that fragile equilibrium. Adding to that list of dangers, a new study suggests that ...

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...