Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

A new effort to monitor the seas by sound says, resoundingly, yes. The ocean—especially busy places such as coral reefs—can ...

Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

Tufted puffins are endangered in Washington state, and researchers hope to boost their sagging population there, currently ...

Robert P. Dziak, Haru Matsumoto, Samara Haver, David K. Mellinger, Lauren Roche, Joseph H. Haxel, Scott Stalin, Christian Meinig, Katie Kohlman, Angie Sremba, Jason ...

The ocean is a noisy place, buzzing with sounds created by wildlife, weather, seasons and earthquakes. For sea animals, these sounds form their natural “soundscape”, but a new article in Science shows ...

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 ...

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows. Shore crabs - the most common on UK shores - can change colour to match their surroundings ...