Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean. Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon. Listen for ...

After that window, sound had little effect. Coral reefs support more than a quarter of all marine animals, protect coastlines from strong waves and storms, and provide food and tourism ...

SurfPerch also monitors coral reefs, crucial marine ecosystems that ... species and more on a reef’s “soundscape” – sounds produced collectively by all of the species living on it.

“Bioacoustics is the study of sounds produced by living organisms. Listening to a coral reef is like listening to an orchestra of biological sound – fish produce popping, whooping and ...

Aran Mooney, a marine biologist at WHOI, describes the sounds made by a healthy coral reef. "So there's a lot of fish ...

Researchers have found that playing the sounds of happy corals through underwater speakers could allow degrading coral reefs to regain lost vitality. A team of scientists played recordings of ...

Now, researchers have shown that broadcasting the sounds of healthy reefs is a way to encourage larval corals to repopulate degraded sites and help revitalize them. A recent study done by ...

That can sound wonderful - if you’re in the vicinity of a singing humpback whale - but on a busy coral reef city, the busy sounds can produce a busy background noise of grunts, bumps and clicks ...

Hontiveros cited estimates that the Philippines was losing about 33.1 billion Philippine pesos (US$577 million) annually due ...