Last spring Kenneth Balcomb, a marine mammalogist, woke to find an unsettling situation outside his Abaco Island home in the Bahamas: a 16-foot Cuvier's beaked whale weighing some 2 tons stranded in ...

Will we risk killing the hand that feeds us — the oceans and the order of nature — for the sake of national security? I’m not a groupie and I’m not a shouter. I delete most of what’s in my inbox. I’m ...

LEWES, DE. - The University of Delaware is taking part in a research program that detects lost crab pots on the floors of Delaware's bays by using sonar. The program aims to locate and remove the ...

Dolphins do it. Big brown bats do it. And sometime soon, the Office of Naval Research hopes its researchers will be able to do it too. Echolocation, that is, and turning the processing of such signals ...