Mystery "quack-like" sounds detected in the ocean over 40 years may have been whales talking, suggests a new study. The noises were picked up in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand ...
Studying coral reefs used to mean hours of grueling manual analysis, but artificial intelligence is changing the game. A new ...
Just as there’s hardly a mountaintop free from the roar of airplanes overhead, there’s virtually no place in the world’s oceans where human sounds aren’t detectable. The loudest and most disruptive ...
Our phones are constantly buzzing with notifications, calls, and alerts, and in this ever-busy world, those sounds can add to the stress. Imagine being in a perfectly peaceful moment only to be ...
The deepest part of the ocean lies in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia. It is dark, mysterious abyss that few of us will ever see. But now we can hear what it sounds like, thanks to a new study ...
The frigid depths of the polar oceans exist only in the imagination for most people. Images of stark white ice fields and vast expanses of water might lead us to believe that the Arctic and ...
The project envisioned setting up a network of ocean noise reference stations — essentially sound recorders called hydrophones — that continuously record sounds of the ocean to monitor long ...
The sound is so loud, the snapping shrimp competes with much larger creatures, such as the blue whale, to be the loudest animal in the ocean. Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine animals, which ...