Sentences with phrase «marine noise pollution»

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At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Joe Crowley is joined by elected officials, civic organizations, advocates and community members to announce the Silent Skies Act to address aircraft noise pollution in communities surrounding airports in Queens; LaGuardia Airport's Marine Air Terminal Rotunda.

Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated in part to protecting the river and its adjacent communities, has responded that the plan lacks transparency, the Council was too hasty in approving the plan without adequate funding information, and did not satisfactorily address key issues related to noise and air pollution and the destruction of marine habitats.

In fact, some scientists say virtually no marine environment is now without noise pollution.

Their goal is to minimize the amount of sound the surveys produce and reduce risks the surveys and other underwater human noise pollution poses to vulnerable marine life.

Ocean noise pollution is a known problem for many marine mammals, which use their hearing for survival tasks like navigation and finding food.

But Solan says that scientists first need to study how noise pollution reverberates through marine ecosystems, all the way down to the seafloor.

Prior to this she studied at the University of St Andrews and Scottish Association for Marine Science, assessing the extent of underwater noise pollution from Acoustic Deterrent Devices used at fish farms on the west coast of Scotland.

It is a future in which the IWC plays a primary role in the health and protection of our oceans, a future in which the body exerts greater leadership in respect to the raft of threats that jeopardize all marine life, whether it be oil spills, radioactive contamination, entanglement in fishing gear and marine debris, ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, emerging diseases, climate change or all of these cumulatively and synergistically.

Noise pollution: Marine mammals are highly sound - oriented creatures.

Research seeking to understand the impacts of noise pollution in the marine environment document threats to whales and fish.

This fascinating area of research will certainly help us better manage human noise pollution threats in the marine environment.

It becomes clear how some forms of this noise pollution may not only confuse whales, but can also be so powerful that «a whale can be killed outright by the shock,» says Carl Gustav Landin, who heads the marine program for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).