Today's guest post is presented courtesy of Lauren Freeman, an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Lab. She studies how humans impact ocean habitats including coral reefs and coastal ...

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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 is teeming with the chirps, “boings” and grunts of underwater creatures. An international team of scientists are building a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, dubbed "Glubs," by ...

Scientists claim that the Arctic soundscape is much more diverse than previously thought, and propose a change in how it should be monitored.

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 ...

Many people think of the ocean as a quiet and serene place: Take a dip underwater and the cacophony of the world melts away. But the ocean is quite noisy, full of whale songs and echolocation, which ...

Researchers have recorded penguins making sounds underwater for the first time—the first time such behavior has been identified in seabirds. These animals, like other seabirds, are highly vocal on ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A principal electrical engineer of the University of Washington’s applied physics lab will give a lecture intended to conjure awareness of the reality of underwater sound this weekend.