NOAA has a plan to protect the oceans from troubling noise pollution

As if the world's marine animals didn't have enough to worry about -- with climate change, ocean acidification, and overfishing threatening their existence -- emerging research over the past several decades has also suggested that devastating "noise pollution" could be invisibly destroying their habitats. Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released a first of its kind roadmap for researching and managing the impact of ocean noise on marine life. Why...

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