Noise Pollution

Kathleen RecinosETX 36 Sustainable Engineering

Form of pollution done by different audio sources that either distract, irritate or damage certain environment

Meaning

http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/noise-pollution-definition-and-causes.html

Stressful to many animals

can cause problems in predator/prey relation and detection

Can even reduce usable habitats for many sound-sensible animals

And can even result in extinction of some species

Effects on Wildlife

http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/noise-pollution-definition-and-causes.html

Effects on Humans To much noise can lead to stress, aggression, sleep disturbance, hearing

loss, and different other psychological issues

Depending on how much time the person is exposed 100 – 120 decibels can start to cause hearing loss or pain

General use. Level of loudness

Ocean Noise Pollution

Disturb the ones that use the sense of hearing as the most important organ of perception

Dolphins and whales commit massive suicides by coming ashore guided by false signals that resulted from noise pollution.

Effects on sea animals

Sonar blasts of military exercises Booms from air guns used in oil and gas exploration, Fleets of commercial ships in global seas.

How humans affect the ocean

Nature has its own undersea noises. But the new ones are loud and ubiquitous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqv5Y8euiA

Solutions ?