New research is challenging long held assumptions about how quiet the Arctic Ocean really is. A study published in npj Acoustics analyzed nearly a decade of underwater recordings from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. It found that the region’s soundscape is far more diverse — and more heavily influenced by human activity — than current monitoring methods pick up. Ship tracking systems underestimate the impacts of human activity in Arctic waters because m…
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