Pilot whales are having to shout louder to be heard over deafening noise from shipping, reveals new research. The underwater ...

A new study has shown that whale calls are reduced by as much as 50% in response to seismic surveys, which are commonly used to find oil and gas reserves. Researchers are worried that such surveys ...

Understanding how they communicate remained difficult because these marine mammals dive to depths of more than a mile for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the moment that the biologist Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static ...

Scientists can now track sperm whale conversations with an underwater robot. Sperm whales swim in dark waters and communicate ...

Project CETI’s underwater technology helps scientists study whale communication and the effects of human activity on marine ...

A collision with a whale could do more than damage a submarine. It could change its sound signature enough for enemy listening networks to detect and track it. In Cold War waters crowded with sonar ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can ...