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Noise Pollution

Noise Pollution. Kathleen Recinos ETX 36 Sustainable Engineering. Meaning. Form of pollution done by different audio sources that either distract, irritate or damage certain environment. http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/noise-pollution-definition-and-causes.html.

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Noise Pollution

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  1. Noise Pollution Kathleen Recinos ETX 36 Sustainable Engineering

  2. Meaning Form of pollution done by different audio sources that either distract, irritate or damage certain environment http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/noise-pollution-definition-and-causes.html

  3. Effects on Wildlife • 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 http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2009/10/noise-pollution-definition-and-causes.html

  4. 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

  5. Ocean Noise Pollution

  6. Effects on sea animals • 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.

  7. How humans affect the ocean • Sonar blasts of military exercises • Booms from air guns used in oil and gas exploration, • Fleets of commercial ships in global seas.

  8. Nature has its own undersea noises. But the new ones are loud and ubiquitous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqv5Y8euiA

  9. Solutions ?

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