Porpoises communicate with each other using sounds. Therefore, they are highly sensitive to noise, such as ship noise. And the Danish belts and sounds are some of the most heavily trafficked waters in ...

Noise pollution underwater has been likened to a nightclub, with seals and porpoises having to "shout" at each other to be heard, according to new research. Pile drivers that bash huge columns into ...

Scientists review recent experiments and find noise regulations may need to be changed to protect porpoises, seals, and other sea-dwelling mammals. Current guidance for seals and porpoises is based on ...

Like seasoned New Yorkers, the porpoises have adapted to the sounds troubling their universe. Also, investigators find an arsenal at the Gilgo Beach suspect’s home. By James Barron Good morning. It’s ...

Three decades of data from UK harbour porpoises show mercury is still increasing despite a global treaty to reduce it.

Constantly on the hunt for food: Harbor porpoises more vulnerable than previously thought to the disturbances from humans. The small whales spend more than 60 percent of their day hunting small fish ...

Our findings highlight that mercury ins’t just a historical problem. It is a current, growing pressure on marine mammals that ...

A harbor porpoise swims in Alaska waters on July 7, 2016. DNA analysis and other information shows that Southeast Alaska’s porpoises have separate populations, and the more southern population appears ...