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, ...

A ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea as holiday-makers ride a jet ski at al Sokhna beach in Suez, Egypt. AP WASHINGTON — Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature of the ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

Lately, Fred Sharpe has been focusing on whale noises that can be heard at the surface. He says they're understudied compared ...

The tragic implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible in June 2023 was one of the most widely discussed events of that year. What was intended to be an ambitious deep-sea expedition to explore the ...

As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, they become more corrosive. That's happening faster here.

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out the ocean is one noisy, riotous place, teeming with the sound of seismic temblors, whale songs and ship propellers — even at the deepest ocean trench. Researchers at the National Oceanic ...

At the bottom of the ocean, a network of underwater microphones eavesdrops day in and day out on the squeaky laments of whales, the rumbles of earthquakes and the drone of passing ships. These sounds ...