Whales use sound to communicate during important activities, like keeping mothers and nursing calves together, foraging in groups, establishing mates and migrating. But recently, human activities like building offshore wind turbines have made the ocean a much noisier place -- which may now be resulting in many whale deaths off the New Jersey coast in 2023

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