The ocean is teeming with the chirps, “boings” and grunts of underwater creatures. An international team of scientists are building a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, dubbed "Glubs," by ...

Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are using sound to detect the effects of climate change by listening to underwater sounds in the ocean, according to a recently ...

The urge to explore the cosmos has always been an irrepressible part of humankind's curiosity. But while venturing into space ...

Canadian researchers have found they can determine the levels of acidity in the ocean by listening to sounds found well below the water's surface with the help of an acoustic profiler developed at ...

When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them. But when we habitually ignore ...

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Travel and economic slowdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic combined to put the brakes on shipping, seafloor exploration, and many other human activities in the ocean, creating a unique moment to begin ...

We’ve all done it: held a seashell up to our ear and waited for the sound of the sea. It’s one of those strange little wonders that sticks with you from childhood, but what’s actually going on inside ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Humans are very noisy. The planet rings with the sounds of the machines we use to live our ...

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 ...

Chill out and silence the sounds of your environment with the sounds of rain, the ocean and more. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac/W.carter/Wikimedia Commons Working in an office or in the city, ...