Fred Sharpe is asking Alaskans to listen closely, document their observations and pass them along to him directly.

Scientists have long studied haunting whale songs, but now they are investigating what the whales make of ocean noises to determine whether freighters, military sonars and oil drilling are harming the ...

Massachusetts (WBZ) — Researchers are listening for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new buoys in the water. The high-tech buoys ...

THE EASTERN SEABOARD. WE ARE LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS OF THE SEA. WE BUILD THE BUOYS THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME THAT WE USE TO DO TO NEAR REAL TIME ACOUSTIC MONITORING OF RIGHT WHALES, MEANING WE LISTEN ...

Christopher Clark, who directs the bioacoustics research program at Cornell University, is among the world's best scientific listeners. His work has revealed how human-made noise is filling the ocean, ...

ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Using underwater recording equipment, scientists have documented humpback whales singing in the New York Bight. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Cornell University ...

Scientists have released recordings of singing humpback whales off the coast of Long Island. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and several universities in New York captured the sounds ...

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