Federal ocean scientists said yesterday they were unable to determine whether Navy sonar caused a mass stranding of whales on the North Carolina shore last year. In their report on the stranding -- ...

The Bush administration recently approved the use of sonar by the Navy to search for ultra-quiet submarines. The decision has angered many environmentalists who argue the use of sonar technology is ...

Scientists have long known that some beaked whales beach themselves and die in agony after exposure to naval sonar, and now they know why: the giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just ...

Systematic statistical analysis indicates that offshore wind development has likely been killing lots of whales since it began around 2016. This long-standing conjecture that wind kills whales may be ...

While winter approaches on the Jersey Shore, the fight to save our communities, and most importantly our “aquatic neighbors” — the marine mammals that reside in and migrate along our coastline — ...

In a Navy-vs.-whales case watched closely by environmentalists from California to the Puget Sound area, President Bush on Wednesday exempted the Navy from some environmental laws. The fight is over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge allowed a team of marine biologists Friday to keep testing a new sonar system designed to detect whales in the deep sea, rejecting a request by some environmentalists ...

In a striking example of evolutionary convergence, bats and whales appear to have at least two things in common: their ability to use biosonar to navigate and explore their environments and the ...