The haunting songs of whales, used for communication and navigation, are increasingly drowned out by the roar of ships, the boom of seismic surveys, and the clatter of offshore construction. As human activity ramps up along bustling maritime trade routes, the resulting barrage of noise pollution is threatening the ocean’s majestic giants. “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you,” observed Leonardo da Vinci presciently in 1490. More than 500 years later, … Continue reading Whales Could Lose Migration Paths Due to Ocean Noise Pollution —100 Times Louder Than 70 Years Ago