As part of Whale Tales’ 20th anniversary, Listening to the Ocean honors two decades of bringing science, storytelling, and community together in service of ocean conservation. The event embodies Whale ...

Humans are very noisy. The planet rings with the sounds of the machines we use to live our modern lives, but nowhere does that noise blare louder than in the ocean, where sound travels much faster and ...

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, ...

The ocean holds secrets we're only beginning to understand. Beneath the surface, endangered whales navigate an increasingly hostile environment filled with ship noise, pollution, and disappearing food ...

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Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Michel Andre is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Snap, crackle, pop: the sound of a glacier. The large bodies of densely packed ice ...

Professor Steve Simpson monitors the sounds of biodiversity on reefs in the Maldives. In the Maldives, Professor Steve Simpson has devised a system that uses the sounds of the reef to help restore ...

Off San Luis Obispo County’s coast lies an underwater ecosystem that scientists are trying to understand — by listening. The acoustics research, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

Isabel Key receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and NatureScot. The rugged west coast of Scotland looks glorious in the sunshine. The turquoise sea is calm but even in July, ...