Exporting Pollution

	Dr Sylvia Earle, on The Ocean Report, talks about noise pollution - podcasts (require RealAudio player)
	Noise Polution 1 Whales and their relatives communicate and navigate underwater using low-frequency sounds. Some marine mammal sounds carry for thousands of miles. Is the noise of ships and ocean exploration drowning them out?
	Noise Pollution 2 Does noise bother you? The underwater noise from commercial shipping is 30 times louder today than it was a century ago--so loud that for whales, it's like living near a large airport.

	Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals – 2003 report summary

	NOAA’s underwater sound gallery

	Uses and characteristics of anthropogenic sound in the marine environment presentation by Kathy Metcalf, Chamber of Shipping of America

	New research shows ocean noise pollution has increased considerably since the 1960s

	Ocean smog: the collective noises from shipping traffic, oil and gas exploration and production, and recreational traffic.

	Animal communication research – Cornell Lab scroll down to ' Whales'

	Noise pollution rising at sea Jay Lindsay, MMV The Associated Press

	Jeffery Nysten, a physical and acoustical oceanographer, has developed PALs: passive aquatic listeners

	NOAA’s Ocean Acoustics program

	Whales blasted by US Navy sonar - video

	Whales, noise pollution and military sonar - podcast Greenpeace oceans campaigner Richard describes how important sound is to whales and dolphins, and how underwater noise pollution, particularly from powerful military sonar equipment, may be having a powerful negative impact on them.

	Underwater noise pollution fact sheets prepared/approved by Marsha L Green, Ph D, Ocean Mammal Institute

	The Animal Welfare Institute closely follows the threat that anthropogenic (human-caused) noise poses to marine life.