SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.

“Tapping sounds” have been detected by sonar in the search area for the missing Titanic tourist submarine. A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive operation ...

A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive operation searched early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished while taking ...

Sound is essential for communication and sensing in dolphins, so anything that disrupts it could be bad news. That is why conservation science company SEA, in collaboration with the US Navy, has been ...

Picture of long-beaked common dolphin off Southern California taken during research authorized by permit #19091 from the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. For the first time ever, a team ...

A Russian sonar (sound navigation and ranging device – ed.) designed to detect and locate submarines was found on the Curonian (Courish) Spit in Lithuania on Saturday. Source: Lithuanian military, ...

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SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.