The new documentary Sonic Sea explores how all the machinery we’re putting into the ocean is disrupting the fragile underwater audio ecosystem. One morning, on a beach in the Bahamas, whale researcher ...

The ocean soundtrack of the popular imagination is a largely silent one, interrupted only by the mournful aria of migrating whales or the acapella vocalizations of dolphin pods. In fact, the ...

An international team of researchers has been eavesdropping on an underwater symphony going on in the Gulf’s waters, and the ...

For us land-dwellers, underwater noise rarely reaches our ears. However, marine organisms can be very sensitive to undersea sounds, particularly unnatural noise. Human activity—from explosives to ...

A Question of Design, Not Evolution At first glance, it seems obvious that submarines should look like the creatures tha ...

We all acknowledge the environmental impact of Underwater Radiated Noise (URN) from ships, and the challenges it poses for shipping companies and shoreside organizations. While noise is produced by ...

FORKS, Wash. — One of the quietest places in the United States may not be so quiet anymore, and advocates hope to reverse that trend. Adding to that discussion are two new studies that look at the ...

Langoustines benefit coastal habitats by rooting through sea floor sediments and turning up nutrients. When hit with shipping and construction noise, they become less active, and that could harm the ...

New research shows turtles can experience temporary hearing loss from an excess of underwater noise. This phenomenon, previously noted in other marine animals such as dolphins and fish, was not widely ...

The Salish Sea—the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia—is home to two unique populations of fish-eating orcas, the northern resident and the southern resident orcas. Human ...

The ocean soundtrack of the popular imagination is a largely silent one, interrupted only by the mournful aria of migrating whales or the acapella vocalizations of dolphin pods. In fact, the ...