conservation
An Arctic internet cable picked up bowhead whale calls for the first time
A Cornell bioacoustician turned a working fiber-optic line off Utqiaġvik, Alaska, into a listening array and found bowhead calls in terabytes of data.
Independent journalism on sound, waves and healing · updated daily
Sunday, November 15, 2026 · The Sunday letter
A Cornell bioacoustician turned a working fiber-optic line off Utqiaġvik, Alaska, into a listening array and found bowhead calls in terabytes of data.