For decades, state officials, tourists, scientists and fisheries have noisily pushed into a sound-sensitive, ice-bound wilderness where some of Earth’s most endangered and iconic animals seek refuge. As the world’s polar vessels descend on the Southern ...
by Tiara Walters, Daily MaverickRevealed: Inside Antarctica’s brutal, lingering noise war on marine life by Tiara Walters, Daily Maverick December 11, 2022 In Part One of this investigation, Our Burning Planet reveals the disturbing impacts of underwater noise in a globally critical — but existentially threatened — ocean refuge.
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