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The Ocean Is Becoming a Lot Noisier

"The expanding global shipping trade is making the underwater world a noisier environment, with unknown effects on marine life, according to a new study of California offshore waters published [last month]. The study shows a tenfold increase in underwater ocean noise off the coast of Southern California as compared with the same area in the 1960s." - excerpt from this ENS article.

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