Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

As you take in a beautiful view of the ocean, do you think of sound? There is a lot of it beneath the waves! Natural sounds are generated by wind, rain, waves, earthquakes as well as whales and ...

Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Audiences can dive into the immersive deep sea experience “Sounds of the Ocean” at Bishop Museum’s Watumull Planetarium Sunday. There will be two one-hour showings at 5:30 p ...

Adding to that list of dangers, a new study suggests that ocean warming could also accelerate the speed of sound underwater, threatening a fragile balance of noise that many marine species require to ...