Noise Pollution

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Environment

How whales struggle to navigate in a sea of noise pollution

New modelling shows that as noise from shipping and other human activities surges, whales will find it increasingly harder to successfully migrate

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Arts & Culture

Our sensory experience of the pandemic

COVID-19 transformed our sensory environment during a time of immense flux, but is it transitory or will there be a re-sensitisation?

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Sciences & Technology

Whale migration in our noisy oceans

Mathematical modelling reveals that human-driven noise in our oceans is affecting marine life, particularly whales, confusing their annual migrations

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Health & Medicine

Cities for healthier lives

A major study, presented to the UN, has for the first time quantified the healthy years of life we are losing by planning cities for cars rather than humans

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