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"Infographics show the human-like musical structure of humpback whale songs, as they synchronize their music across hundreds of miles."

"This is the most awesomely surreal architectural proposal of 2015: an extremely remote Cold War-era submarine surveillance station on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Outer Hebrides might soon be transformed into a kind of benthic concert hall for listening to whale song."

"The table is made of steel rods and filled it with beach rocks, then it was lowered into the ocean near Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay, where over the course of two months it accumulated living accretions from the ocean. Atop the table is an oversize sound-amplifying funnel reminiscent of the hailing horns used on whaling ships, which is constructed of laser-cut panels of polycarbonate lashed together with nylon zip ties. The horn amplifies and concentrates a sound recording made by a hydrophone close to where the table was submerged."

"Conversations of Great Whales in the oceans… Low throb of ship engines… Continuous rumble of the ground beneath our feet and of the seafloor below the water… Bursts of vibrations excited by earthquakes… We cannot normally hear these vibrations as sounds-the human ear is not designed to. But what if we could? What if we could make the sounds of the Earth audible?"

"The oceans are full of noise - both natural and man-made. In this video, researcher Michel Andre explains how he is trying to make sense of how our sounds have such far-reaching effects on the whales sharing our seas."

"Human industry is now noisy enough to drown out whale songs. What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet? "

"The strange narrative of Newtown Creek unwinds over a new audio tour, the half-hour "A Field Guide to Whale Creek." Created by the Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE), a media art collective including Nick Hubbard, Rebecca Lieberman, and Marina Zurkow,"

"You can look across a vast expanse of ice, all white and blue and cold, and see nothing. The lead is choked with pack ice or sealed over with newly formed ice, and there is no movement or sound. With few birds, no whales and no bears, one might mistake the Arctic for a desert. But if you go down to the ice edge, pick a hole in the new ice deep enough to reach water and drop in a hydrophone (an underwater microphone), the cacophony is astonishing. "