<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Human Noise Pollution Is Harming Ocean Creatures</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/oliviarosane"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">Olivia Rosane</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-noise-pollution-humans-2650329818.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1">https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-noise-pollution-humans-2650329818.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Humans are changing the way the </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/oceans" target="_self"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">ocean</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> sounds, and it is having a profound impact
on </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/marine-life" target="_self"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">marine life</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">A major new literature review </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/eaba4658" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">published in Science</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> on Thursday found that noise from vessels,
sonar, seismic surveys and construction can damage marine animals' hearing,
change their behaviors and, in some cases, threaten their ability to survive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">"When people think of threats facing the ocean,
we often think of </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" target="_self"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">climate change</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">, </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/plastics" target="_self"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">plastics</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> and </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/overfishing" target="_self"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">overfishing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">," Neil Hammerschlag, a University of Miami
marine ecologist who was not involved with the paper, </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/animals-whales-fish-oceans-shrimp-706b47ec67dc979543adaf7127a9d208" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">told
The Associated Press</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">. "But
noise pollution is another essential thing we need to be monitoring."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Sound is key to how ocean animals communicate with
each other and navigate their environments. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Underwater, it is only possible to
see for tens of yards and to detect a chemical signal from hundreds of yards
away, </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/science/ocean-marine-noise-pollution.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(17,119,96)">The
New York Times explained</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">. Sound, on the
other hand, can travel thousands of miles, which is why many marine creatures
have evolved to detect and emit it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">However, the singing of whales and groaning of coral
reefs contribute to an underwater soundscape that is significantly changing
because of human activity. To better understand, a 25-author research team
reviewed more than 10,000 papers on the topic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">For one, the researchers wrote, overfishing and
habitat loss have decreased the sounds generated by ocean life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">"[T]hose voices are gone," Carlos Duarte,
study lead author and Red Sea Research Center marine ecologist, told The
Associated Press.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">The climate crisis is also altering sounds from
geophysical sources such as sea ice and storms, the study found.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Then there is the noise humans have added through
shipping traffic, fossil fuel exploration and even intentional attempts at
deterrence. Evidence shows that these noises harm marine mammals, but several
studies show that they impact fish, invertebrates, sea birds and reptiles as
well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">For example, salmon farms in British Columbia's
Broughton Archipelago installed sonic harassment devices to keep seals from
eating the fish, The New York Times reported. This had the unintended
consequence of driving away killer whales until the devices were removed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Another example are clownfish, who rely on sounds to
guide them back to the coral reefs where they were born, after drifting on the
open ocean as larvae. But human-caused noise can now obscure the cracking and
snapping of coral, forcing some clownfish to drift forever.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">"The soundtrack of home is now hard to hear, and
in many cases has disappeared," Duarte told The New York Times.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">While this is distressing, the good news is that
something can be done about it. Noise is what is known as point-source
pollution, the study explained, meaning you can identify the place or activity
that is causing the problem and remove it, reversing its effects.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">"In theory, you can reduce or turn off sound
immediately — it's not like plastics or climate change, which are much harder
to undo," Francis Juanes, study coauthor and University of Victoria
ecologist, told The Associated Press.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Despite this, noise is not mentioned in the UN's Law
of the Sea B.B.N.J. agreement or its 14th sustainable development goal, which
focuses on ocean life, The New York Times reported. Researchers hope that their
work will inspire policy makers to take ocean noise seriously and deploy
already available solutions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><br></span></p>

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sensitive areas, change propellers," Steve Simpson, study co-author and
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