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The far-reaching impacts of chronic ocean noise

by mstocker • March 1, 2016 • 0 Comments

While it is not surprising, it is a bit alarming that scientific evidence is revealing that the impacts of chronic ocean noise on marine life that are broader and deeper than what has heretofore been considered. Some of these revelations come…

What can animals hear?

by mstocker • January 30, 2013 • 0 Comments

While catastrophic whale strandings first brought the public’s attention to the ocean noise impacts, a greater noise concern is the impact of the ever increasing “acoustic smog” from human noise sources. This problem is called “masking” – what happens when…