Since the mid-1960s, the amount of commercial vessel traffic in Earth's oceans has nearly doubled, resulting in an almost 16-fold increase in background noise ... of sound pollution from human ...

Noise pollution, on the other hand ... “As sounds emerge out of the background, that triggers your central nervous system to say, ‘Oh my God, a lion is sneaking up on me!’” ...

“We will study the problem and come up with solutions to reduce the noise pollution,” he said.