Researchers make ominous discovery using underwater microphones: 'Increasing the intensity'

Researchers make ominous discovery using underwater microphones: 'Increasing the intensity'

A team of researchers is voicing concerns over the rapid changes in Arctic marine soundscapes that may be affecting the region's vulnerable ecosystems.  What's happening? As outlined in a press release from the University of Bath, researchers used underwater microphones to listen to the Arctic Ocean for nearly 10 years. They focused on specific sound ranges, called shipping bands, in Cambridge Bay in Nunavut, Canada.   Shipping bands, or the fre…