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5/23/20
CORONAVIRUS-19 : SEA NOISE POLLUTION PLUMMETS : GIVES SEA LIFE RESPITE
DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : UNDERWATER NOISE POLLUTION : SEA LIFE RESPITE
EXCERPT:
'We are facing a moment of truth,' marine acoustician Michelle Fournet of Cornell University - who studies humpback whales off of Alaska - told the Guardian.
'We have an opportunity to listen - and that opportunity to listen will not appear again in our lifetime.'
The last time that the oceans fell quiet was in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, when a reduction in shipping allowed experts to determine that ship noise is connected to chronic stress in baleen whales.
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