A new study has shown that whale calls are reduced by as much as 50% in response to seismic surveys, which are commonly used to find oil and gas reserves. Researchers are worried that such surveys ...

Sperm whales search the dark ocean with extremely short, focused pulses of sound. Measurements place the apparent source level of their strongest usual clicks above 230 decibels under the reference ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the moment that the biologist Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static ...

The constant hum from human-made inventions (think massive shipping boats, deep-sea mining, and offshore oil rigs) has ...

A new open-access catalogue of whale calls will help researchers and orca enthusiasts identify distinct killer whale ...

Scientists have discovered that sperm whales can communicate with each other by clicking in short bursts. These sounds can travel up to a kilometer. Scientists are now able to track these exchanges ...

A new open-access catalog of whale calls will help researchers and orca enthusiasts identify distinct killer whale ...