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Noise Pollution Threatens Sea Life, Scientists Say

Reuters

   Far beneath the ocean surface, a cacophony of industrial noise is
   disrupting marine animals' ability to mate, feed and even evade
   predators, scientists warn.

   With rumbling ships, hammering oil drills and booming seismic survey
   blasts, humans have drastically altered the underwater soundscape -- in
   some cases deafening or disorienting whales, dolphins and other marine
   mammals that rely on sound to navigate, researchers report in a
   metastudy published online Thursday and in the Friday edition of the
   journal [1]Science that examines more than 500 research papers.

   Even the cracking of glaciers calving into polar oceans and the rattle
   of rain falling on the water's surface can be heard deep under the sea,
   said lead author Carlos Duarte, a marine scientist at King Abdullah
   University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.

References

   1. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/eaba4658

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