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Article: “Whales Get A Break As Pandemic Creates Quieter Oceans”

A group of humpback whales feeding together just outside Glacier Bay in August 2018. National Park Service photo taken under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit

Click to read: “Whales Get A Break As Pandemic Creates Quieter Oceans

July 20, 2020 by Lauren Sommer

As COVID-19 has slowed down the shipping industry, whales have been finding themselves in quieter waters. Learn how researchers use a hydrophone to record the underwater soundscape, listen to humpback whale songs in Glacier Bay, and more.

Learn more at npr.org.