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 ...

The ocean is a noisy place, buzzing with sounds created by wildlife, weather, seasons and earthquakes. For sea animals, these sounds form their natural “soundscape”, but a new article in Science shows ...

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

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 ...

Mysterious sounds emanating from the depths of the Southern Ocean continue to astound scientists as the latest research suggests the strange noises may have been a “conversation” between unidentified ...

There are the slosh-sloshes of the waves, the boisterous barks of sea lions, the singular call of the gulls, and the songs of whales, just to name a few among the millions. But what of the sounds that ...

There may be a new way to take the oceans’ temperature: using sound. Like the atmosphere, they are warming because of climate change, and they have absorbed about 90 percent of the excess heat trapped ...