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Entries for July 2017

What’s that sound? What underwater listening can teach us about the Arctic

(July 04, 2017) - Large whales can communicate over hundreds of kilometers, something unheard of for a land mammal. Think of being able to send a signal using only your voice to someone on the other side of your city or even town – impossible. But underwater communication is different: Sound travels more than four times faster underwater than it does in air, which means sound also travels much farther underwater than it does above the surface.

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