EditorialA humpback whale is seen near a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 20 miles off San Francisco, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialA humpback whale is seen near a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 20 miles off San Francisco, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Fournet, a marine acoustic ecologist at the University of New Hampshire who has been trying to decipher humpback whale communication, listens after dipping her hydrophone underwater, in Rye, N.H., Aug. 25, 2022. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)