Navy-funded researchers recently tagged four whales and two Risso’s dolphins near San Clemente Island to see what effects Navy sonar training has on marine mammals’ movements and behavior. The study, ...

In September 2002, a number of beaked whales were stranded and killed in the Canary Islands during a NATO naval exercise. It was the first time we started to get a real understanding of the negative ...

The U.S. Navy is asking to be exempted from a federal law that forbids the harassment or killing of whales as it begins exercises with a powerful new sonar designed to hunt for super-quiet submarines.

Soundwaves from underwater military sonar are far more distressing for whales than was previously thought and drives some terrified creatures to their death onshore ...

A pair of recent studies shows the unique responses of different whales to sonar, typically used by navies to detect submarines. Sonar sounds have been linked to hearing loss, deadly mass strandings ...

SILVERDALE — The U.S. Navy has released its final environmental impact statement on its proposals for use of sonar and explosives for training and testing in the Puget Sound, Strait of Juan de Fuca ...

But why did the noise of sonar seem to affect beaked whales in particular, rather than other species of cetacean? In our new research, we’ve discovered that the response of each species to predators ...