Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed underwater to pick up any sounds, has long helped scientists detect the presence, or absence, of whales in oceans. More often than not ...

The Week is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

As the dead whale’s body sits lifeless on the floor, it turns into a nutritional bounty or a feast for the organisms living in the underwater ecosystem. For decades, probably even centuries, zillions ...

The underwater videographer and diver lost his camera off the coast of Vancouver Island. Little did he know, a thrilling footage awaited. Into this mix, the sudden appearance of a giant humpback whale ...

Before then, the volcano's most recent major eruptions were in 2016, 2014, 2007 and 2003. In the past, researchers also sighted ephemeral islands up to half a mile (1 km) wide being birthed by the ...

off California to help reduce fatal strike risk to whales, as well as air and underwater noise pollution. After the Vessel Speed Reduction (VSR) season (May to December) ends, BWBS analyses vessel AIS ...

Since so little is understood about this whale species, researchers like O’Corry-Crowe and his colleagues are working diligently to conduct studies to document narwhals’ unknown behaviors to ...

There’s an irascible, high-handed volunteer mayor (Crystal Finn) who may be the Karennest Karen ever, bulldozing through town halls convened to discuss the Whale Problem. Better adjusted are ...

MONTEREY BAY, Calif. – A group of Southern Resident killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay, California, on Tuesday in a rare spectacle of the endangered creatures. About 25 of the whales were seen ...

XRP whales have accumulated over 90 million coins over the last 24 hours. Pockets of whale activity litter the XRP's ecosystem in the lead up to the White House Crypto Summit. There is chatter that ...

A third said: "The amount of engineering required for us to be down there and this thing just swims by on a held breath," explaining that whales can't actually breathe underwater, making it all ...