Noise Harms Wildlife Across Six Continents
Researchers reviewed more than 200 experiments covering 177 water and land species on six continents. They found that noise changed specific traits in 80% of the animals studied. The study's headline points to human-made noise as a growing, sometimes fatal, stress on wildlife.
Context
Anthropocene is a term scientists use for the current era, when human activity strongly shapes Earth's land, water and air. Traffic, construction and shipping noise adds to habitat loss and pollution as pressures on wild animals.
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