Marine Mammals
How to See What Whales Hear
On summer nights, if you sit quietly at the edge of a field or watch the edges of the light pools around street lamps, you will see bats swooping through…
Even Sperm Whales Get the Bends
It seemed only natural for deep-diving sperm whales to be immune from decompression illness, or…
A Lone Voice Crying in the Watery Wilderness
And speaking of whales, here is a story of whales speaking—or more precisely, one whale,…
Run Deep, But Not Silent
For the first time in history, we can accompany a whale on its dive, hear…
Playing Tag with Whales
The challenge of designing a device to learn what marine mammals do on dives is…
Mistaken Identity
Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have found that two chemicals accumulating in the…
Red Tides and Dead Zones
The most widespread, chronic environmental problem in the coastal ocean is caused by an excess…
Scientists Muster to Help Right Whales
It is a sad irony that we have cataloged individual photographs of the remaining North…
Whither the North Atlantic Right Whale?
"Today only a remnant of the population survives, no more than 350 whales clustered in…