ScienceDaily | Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off the coast of Southern California. The court is due to hear the case after its term begins again this...

Andrew Ryan | Boston Globe | Researchers spotted a rare adult blue whale this weekend that appeared to be feeding 15 miles off the coast of Gloucester. The whale looked as if it was roughly 70- to 80-feet long as it dove repeatedly to eat what biologists assumed was a dense swarm of krill, a...

By Kenneth Chang | New York Times |  Not too far out from New York Harbor, whales sing. Christopher W. Clark, director of the bioacoustics research program at Cornell, has the recordings to prove it. “To me, it’s extraordinary,” Dr. Clark said. “People wouldn’t think of going out of New...