Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world’s murky marine environments. Reporting their ...

Imagine that you live in murky darkness, and sound is the primary sense by which you find dinner, avoid danger, and keep your offspring close. Perhaps you are a sperm whale relying on Morse-code like ...

At the end of a summer day, Mackenzie Woods climbed into an aluminum skiff off the dusky coast of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. As she revved up her 9.9-horsepower motor, sound waves rippled through ...

Despite appearances, the oceans are far from silent places. If you dunk your head underwater you’ll hear a cacophony of sounds from wildlife great and small, crashing waves, and even rain. And it’s ...

DURHAM, N.H.-- An international development team, led by researchers at the University of New Hampshire, has released a user-friendly software program they created that can process sound data ...

Snap, crackle, hush. Snapping shrimps – which produce ubiquitous crackles that guide fish larvae to reefs – may become quieter by the end of the century. This is a likely outcome of ocean ...

Marine animals are feeling the impact as humans have added to the noise levels in the Earth’s oceans with shipping, fishing and recreation, University of New Hampshire researchers say. “Underwater ...

Heatmap representing the percentage of hours in a week with noise detection assigned to various marine mammal species and anthropogenic sources in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (A) and M2 (B). Darker colors ...

We are surrounded by sounds creating a soundscape just as the land and buildings create landscapes. They are distinctive. The sirens and traffic of Manhattan, the silence punctuated by honking geese ...

Ivan Nagelkerken receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Sean Connell receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Tullio Rossi owns the YouTube channel where the linked ...