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Close-up of a partially surfaced humpback whale showing its baleen
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A Great Whale Conveyor Belt Transports Nutrients Across Oceans

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 5 May 20255 May 2025

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding areas.

Six penguins walk along a rocky outcrop. Snowy mountains are in the background.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Forecasting the Future of Southern Ocean Ecosystems

by Rebecca Owen 26 March 202526 March 2025

A new ensemble of marine ecosystem models aims to improve understanding of how climate change will affect the waters surrounding Antarctica.

Colorful multibeam bathymetry shows pits likely created by porpoises on the seafloor. Some pits have merged together to create bigger conjoined pits.
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Mysterious Seafloor Pits May Be Made on Porpoise

by Andrew Chapman 15 February 20246 June 2024

Some shallow seafloor depressions off the coast of Germany that look like those associated with methane might instead be the work of porpoises.

Scientists on a boat lowering a seismometer into the water.
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The Not-So-Silent Depths

by Gaye Bayrakci and Frauke Klingelhoefer 9 February 202412 February 2024

A new book reveals that ocean depths are far from silent voids, but are actually alive with noise.

Bubbles and the silhouettes of fish are seen from below, with light from the surface above them.
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Oceanic Cacophony 

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 21 December 202321 December 2023

The ocean is a pretty loud place, and anthropogenic noise is adding another layer to the soundscape.

Drone footage of a blue whale surfacing to breathe off the coast of California.
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Scientists Tune In to Blue Whale Feeding Rhythms

by Bill Morris 26 October 20226 December 2022

New acoustic sensing technology is allowing scientists to track blue whale movements in real time, a breakthrough that could help save whales’ lives.

Aerial image of blue whale breathing at the water’s surface.
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Wiretapped Cables and the Songs of Whales

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 22 July 202217 February 2023

Researchers jerry-rigged fiber-optic cables in a fjord to eavesdrop on blue whales, with possible applications ranging from seafloor mapping to meteorology.

Several people aboard a small motorboat in a fjord with a glacial ice cliff in the background
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Arctic Unicorns and the Secret Sounds of a Glacial Fjord

by Evgeny A. Podolskiy 9 December 20213 February 2023

The successful deployment of a seafloor seismometer near the calving front of a Greenland glacier has opened a new avenue to study hidden glacial processes and the behavior of fjord-dwelling wildlife.

A dolphin washed up on a beach
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Wind and Ocean Currents May Contribute to Mass Dolphin Strandings

by Rebecca Dzombak 4 November 202128 March 2023

Coastal wind patterns correlate with mass strandings of dolphins, suggesting that storm-induced upwelling could be influencing cetaceans’ behavior.

Dolphin trials at Dolphin Quest in Hawaii.
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Autonomous Vehicles Could Benefit from Nature

by Stacy Kish 22 September 202129 March 2023

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan is looking to animals to find new ways for autonomous vehicles to navigate through the environment.

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