The following piece by Derek Davis, an Earth.com staff writer was based on a research undertaken by the University of Melbourne and the Politecnico di Torino on how whales are reacting to noisy oceans ...

Whales are among the loudest animals on Earth, but even they can be susceptible to harm from excessive or overly loud noise in the ocean. Scientists have measured blue whales calls as loud as 190 ...

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, ...

Shipping is one of the main sources of human-made sound in the ocean. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, ...

In 1997, researchers recorded a powerful underwater sound in the Pacific Ocean unlike anything ever heard before. Nicknamed the “Bloop,” the mysterious noise was so loud it was detected thousands of ...

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Ocean swells are constantly occurring across the Earth’s oceans. These swells interact with the ocean crust below, creating continuous ocean noise that travels all over the Earth, including through ...

Copyright 순단 강/AdobeStock About the Author: Chris Waddington is Technical Director at the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS). He is responsible for the ...

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, ...