MC: Analyzing hours of sound recordings is tedious and costly, so we collaborated with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab to use ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the "echoic return signal" ...

Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish has a super blog post up about a beluga whale that was recorded mimicking the sounds of human speech. It concludes with the most excellent line that “to whales, humans ...

Around Queensland and New South Wales, humpback whales are being accidentally trapped. According to the Guardian, at least ...

Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to ...

PUGET SOUND, Wash. — The first of many Sounder gray whales returning to Puget Sound was seen in the Salish Sea earlier this week. The whale’s appearance marks the continuance of a recent trend of ...

The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

Whales and dolphins use sound to communicate, navigate and detect prey, making them particularly vulnerable to noise ...

Our gentle leviathans may cherish quietude, but silence is killing humans—no matter how much they babble. Koogler’s portrait of Pacific Northwesterners unfolds in a handful of group scenes and several ...

Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies, a voluntary program to reduce vessel speeds that started in the Santa Barbara Channel, ...