Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans' 'year of quiet'
BBC News By Victoria Gill image copyrightAlamy image captionResearchers say evidence of the harm ocean noise pollution can do has been building for decades Ocean scientists around the world are studying the "unique moment" of quiet created by the pandemic. The researchers have called their vast listening experiment: The year of the quiet ocean. "Lockdown slowed global shipping on a scale that would otherwise be impossible," explained Prof Peter Tyack from the University of St Andrews. The scientists plan to listen to the ocean soundscape before, during and after lockdown. They have identi...
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