If the experiment works, the thousands of miles of fibre-optic cables that already crisscross the ocean floor could be turned ...

Whale watchers also got the chance to see a mama sea creature hold a sea lion carcass to help feed her baby, the company said ...

Killer whales, also known as orcas, are apex predators and key indicators of marine health. They are the largest members of ...

A team of marine biologists are investigating the mysterious mass stranding of orcas in Argentina, after 26 killer whales ...

The technology, called Distributed Acoustic Sensing, transforms cables into continuous underwater microphones that can ...

Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to ...

The stakes are high. The Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face a triple threat: underwater noise pollution, toxic ...

How are whale populations faring? Traditionally, getting an answer to that question involved counting whales by taking their ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of ...

That may be the strategy behind a fascinating new analysis of the impact giant merchant ships have on killer whale populations. It is a proposal written by M. Scott Taylor and published by the ...

New study links shipping noise pollution to higher mortality, lower birth rates for killer whales, but offers market solutions to address it.

There are few experiences more humbling than watching a whale surface just a few yards away, its massive body gliding through the waves. In Newport Beach, California, whale watching is more than a day ...