Our noise is killing marine life, but we can turn down the volume

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The oceans are super noisy - louder than ever before. Noise pollution is making whales deaf, killing plankton and scaring away fish from feeding grounds. But is there a way to fix this?
Reporter: Tim Schauenberg
Video editor: Madmo Cem Adam Springer
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann 
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #OceanNoise #NoisePollution
Read more:
Overview ocean noise pollution: www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Air guns and the effect on zooplankton: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Deep dive into sound, noise and the ocean: dosits.org/
Port of Vancouver under water management plan: www.portvancouver.com/wp-cont...
Deep dive into solutions and potentials: www.cms.int/sites/default/fil...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 How loud is the ocean
01:23 Why natural sounds matter
02:55 Threat through noise pollution
03:40 Windfarms are noisy - bubbles can help
06:07 Main polluters: cargo ships
09:32 The worst offenders - seismic air guns
12:16 Summary
13:26 Conclusion

Пікірлер: 64

@DWPlanetA Жыл бұрын

How do you think we should mitigate ocean noise?

@DoozyyTV Жыл бұрын

give all animals airpods and iphones

@iamsandhu8664 Жыл бұрын

@@DoozyyTV Lmfao

@ronnyshaji2700 Жыл бұрын

Yes of course... It's our duty to save.

@worldcitizeng6507 Жыл бұрын

Less recreational sporting equipment around the beach. Paddle boards vs speed scooter

@Joe90V Жыл бұрын

Need to establish more Marine Conservation Zones. Every Wind Farm could be one, with artificial reefs added in lines that still allow maintenance vessels to operate. Plant kelp fields and sea grasses nearer to shore. Just thinking out loud, I'm no expert.

@adus123 Жыл бұрын

More public awareness is needed I didn't know about them using air guns and the damage they do just to find oil.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Жыл бұрын

Yea that was a surprise for me as well! I’m glad they included the lady’s reaction at the end though when she basically said, “who cares if the other solution is less harmful? They’re still drilling for oil and we need to stop that!”

@sciencewizard2861 Жыл бұрын

Exactly I’m very pro environmental and I didn’t even know about the existence of airguns

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Жыл бұрын

This is a huge part of why I’m not 100% sold on deep sea mining for battery minerals. We’ve already destroyed so much habitat for land based animals and I worry that we’ll end up doing the same for marine animals. This is why I generally advocate for people in developed countries to reduce their energy usage…hopefully to the point that we don’t need to start mining the sea floor. That being said, thanks for bringing up cool solutions like the bubble curtains which we can use when we DO need to do stuff in the ocean. This was super cool!

@matildo4ka7 Жыл бұрын

I would say consumption is the biggest problem of the developed countries and not only of the energy, but of regular junk stuff. Regulation of the ocean based noise is not a rocket science, it's very easy to find the polluters. But no one lives in the ocean except marine life, so it affects a lesser number of people, so regulators do not care about marine life as much. Someone said 'seagulls don't vote' reg. wind mills impact on marine birds, the same thing applies here 'dolphins don't vote', so not many governments care. I hope US will take it in the right direction as we have the 2 biggest oceans. Europe doesn't care much about oceans as they are mostly land based. We had a presentation with the EU Parliament and their rep is "still emailing me back reg. my question- what EU does for oceans". I'd assume not much as she is not aware. Island countries should lead us in the ocean protection field, but they rely on Western science. It is a disgrace in my opinion, that we do not have more ocean research centers in those countries instead of Europe or the US.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Жыл бұрын

@@matildo4ka7 I agree that over consumption is a huge problem. That’s why I tend to try to make my videos two-pronged: they give advice on what you can change immediately, and they also give advice on what governmental policies you need to support. I definitely would also like to see governments regulate ocean noise pollution more. This slips my mind sometimes because there’s literally so much that we have to fix…so this video was a great little reminder for me!

@manueljoshua175 Жыл бұрын

I'm just wondering right now how bad WW2 must have been for marine life. All those warships, submarines, under water bombs, torpedos etc

@ronnyshaji2700 Жыл бұрын

Very happy... I wish when people all start to care about Mother Nature, how beautiful it will be, few years later.

@missw.2820 Жыл бұрын

I had no idea underwater noise pollution was this bad. It’s horrifying!

@rob_101 Жыл бұрын

More than 2.4 million trees of sub-tropical forests are to be cut down to make Nijgadh International Airport here in Nepal. The region is an important habitat for several endangered species including asiatic elephant. This project will have more impacts than benefits for a long run. Hope you make a video on that too. 🇳🇵

@veggieboyultimate Жыл бұрын

All types of pollution needs to be addressed, they are all bad for the environment.

@worldcitizeng6507 Жыл бұрын

The memorable moments of the Mediterranean sea experience for me was near the south east coast of 🇹🇷 Turkish around KOS in July 2019. The skipper threw a small piece of bread into the sea, a fish surface to eat it! We can sea the depth of the shore in turquoise water! I still can't believe that I swim in the Mediterranean sea, climbed up to our Turkish Gulet (wooden yacht) rinsed off, and enjoyed a chilling day

@justinweatherford8129 Жыл бұрын

Installing more wind and solar farms here in Kansas, the center of the continuous United States, instead of on the ocean would probably help reduce oceanic noise pollution. Granted it would be a good thing to also have wind and solar farms distributed throughout the United States, but having the majority of that electricity generated in the geographic center of the United States would help with distribution. One argument that I could see presented with this is less room for agriculture, but it has been proven that solar farms used in conjunction with agriculture actually helps the agricultural farms instead of hindering them. With that in mind agricultural farms could also switch to electric farm equipment, taking greater advantage of the electricity that they themselves generate. So what exactly is the excuse for this not being implemented? Quite simply finances, ignorance, and the fear of trying something new.

@tomkelly8827 Жыл бұрын

Yes driving piles for oil and gas rigs is also a problem as it is with wind turbines too. I like seeing the solutions paired with the issues here. Well done DW! I am surprised that you did not address the elephant at sea though which is sonar. Perhaps there is not such an easy replacement for sonar as there are for the other sites but sonar is also high up on that list of noise pollution in the oceans

@youmeandeveryone5893 Жыл бұрын

Amazing documentary

@iamsandhu8664 Жыл бұрын

Learned something new

@dianewallace6064 Жыл бұрын

So heartbreaking

@roflman2122 Жыл бұрын

aint no way the shrimp got bass

@santiagodemarco547 Жыл бұрын

The military submarine and the oil exploration are the problem.

@roflman2122 Жыл бұрын

mil subs are probably the quietest and fewest vessels out there

@malikrahman8649 Жыл бұрын

I'd say humans are the problem

@bltzcstrnx Жыл бұрын

@@roflman2122 not when they're pinging their active sonar. Although most of the time they stay silent to avoid detection.

@barbaralavelle4620 Жыл бұрын

New video idea : how might new ship propulsion technologies such as solar, ev battery, green hydrogen powered engines affect noise pollution as well as greenhouse gas pollution and bilge water pollution? How feasible would it be to replace or retrofit the majority of vessels with these greener technologies?

@mikecorbeil Жыл бұрын

Fine episode, and I also don't like noise, from, f.e., very noisy motor vehicles driven on our roads, streets, and there are other examples, plenty, but it evidently will not be as harmful to me as abnormal noise in our waters will be or is for aquatic life. Noise is very annoying, imo, but it evidently is even worse for aquatic systems.

@TheSkystrider Жыл бұрын

I hope someday we discover a planet teeming with life that excludes technology. But I also hope we will be sufficiently advanced to not need any resources and can just have small impact by walking and enjoying that paradise. I hate how much we hurt so many lives on planet Earth.

@neokane9035 Жыл бұрын

More information sharing & awareness campaign

@user-zl4lc7cf7b Жыл бұрын

Can i citation science information video from your channel to add them to my channel. Thank you

@javierst8387 5 ай бұрын

Hello, do you have this video with spanish translate or in spanish audio? is for a class in the university, thanks.

@DWPlanetA 5 ай бұрын

Hey Javier! Unfortunately, we cannot provide the video in Spanish. However, you could use the auto-translate function that KZfaq provides. Hope this helps!

@piscitellinicholas5240 Жыл бұрын

People always screw everything up, And we're the smart ones.

@vonshango6311 Жыл бұрын

1:54 sound is essential for almost all marine life, whales to jellyfish.

@__Andrew_ Жыл бұрын

Please DW.. publish a 2nd version of this here on YT.. that we can enjoy WITHOUT the NOISE POLLUTION Of your own “background” “music” being forced on your listeners.

@allythearts5439 8 ай бұрын

Damn so we are causing them to literally go deaf 😞

@allagreta9990 Жыл бұрын

Get them politicians by lobbying for it

@Sarahlenea Жыл бұрын

as usual, we have most of the solutions, but we need much stricter regulations for them to be widely used.

@CocoaPimper Жыл бұрын

Every Minecraft player hates those air bubbles... it makes you boat go down to the ocean floor. :D

@phil20_20 Жыл бұрын

Sonar is making our whales deaf. That's why they beach.

@MrCacaindahouse Жыл бұрын

This companys need to be shut down, whats wrong people ? Its more important to have money then a home ? Ask yourself and decide.

@arvinsharmayoutube Жыл бұрын

This actually is like Science I like it

@dougkippen4971 Жыл бұрын

The irony: a video about unnecessary noise that is laced with unnecessary background sounds and music. I suspect this wasn't well thought through.

@thesilentone4024 Жыл бұрын

Stop having so much noise in there less noise. Have more sailing or electric boat's. We need to reduce are impact on life but so far where getting more intrusive in life.

@stupendouslife8128 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👏👏😃😃

@matthewbaynham6286 Жыл бұрын

The technology in building an off shore wind turbine comes from the oil and gas industry. When you look at the North sea (that is north east from the UK) that use to be a massive oil and gas field and the workers for oil and gas lived in the north east of the UK. So when the UK started doing off source wind turbines, they employed the same people using the same techniques and the same technology, to put wind turbines instead of oil rigs. So the fact that this programme is only complaining about wind turbines and not oil rigs is a bit strange, and suggests there is a political motive behind this programme. Someone doesn't want wind turbines where as that person is completely fine with their oil and gas infrastructure.

@NewAge374 Жыл бұрын

I am often critical of these videos too but what I think helps is believing that we want to make a transition to renewable energies making as few mistakes as possible. So it's really an invitation to investigate how we want wind farms to be installed at sea. In this video I was glad that sytemic solutions were also teased, like sailing vessels and the complete eradication of using fossil fuels. This channel does more than governments and companies acknowledging this.

@Sussurrus Жыл бұрын

Agree with her. We should ban all new oil extraction instead of wasting money on research in new air gun methods...

@arvinsharmayoutube Жыл бұрын

EARLY

@asturiasra Жыл бұрын

Good luck trying to tell Chinese and Russian submarines to stop using active sonar. Good luck with that.

@rajendratayya8400 Жыл бұрын

Objective science is always noisy.

@__Andrew_ Жыл бұрын

DW… OH the IRONY.. a channel that smothers every documentary with its own NOISE POLLUTION - ie near INCESSANT background music …. Makes a documentary about the harms of noise pollution. Oh the IRONY!! :) Very interesting topics, - so I stay subscribed, but I can rarely bear to listen more than a few minutes due to the usually annoying bgmusic.

@TechWithNiccolo Жыл бұрын

There is almost no documentary that has no background music, it is just not something that is made. Most videos or form of entertainment have soundtracks of music or sound effects layered below speech and scenes, so I don't know what you expect, you come across as whiny and as if it is so immensely distracting when their mixing levels are perfect and allow for the people speaking to be heard loud and clear.