Humans have filled the world with so much noise that the only sounds many of us often hear  on a daily basis are  our own. But all this sound isn’t great for our planet mates and it isn’t great for us either. In this episode, we look at how human-made sound makes it hard for other creatures to listen and communicate.

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Special thanks to:

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Discovery of Sound in the Sea

Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab

Ships, Whales & Acoustics in Gitga’at Territory

These sounds were recorded in Gitga’at Territory and sourced from the Ships, Whales & Acoustics in Gitga'at Territory Project, a collaborative initiative of the Gitga’at Nation, North Coast Cetacean Society (BC Whales) and WWF-Canada.

Brian Miller, Australian Antarctic Division

NOAA

Lofoten-Vesterålen Ocean Observatory

Thank you to everyone who submitted frog sounds for this episode: Andrew Cronin, Aaron Jonah Lewis, Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, Alan Burger, Barry Truax, Bess Samuel, Cliff Bahlinger, Craig Hemsath, Curt Newton, Dan Carreno, Diogo Matias, Dr. Paola Moscoso, Edward Ruchalski, Henry Koch, Indraneil Das/UNIMAS, Jenny Skopliak, Joel Watters, Judith Smit, Karthic SS, Klaartje Van Loy, Kriistina Ovaska, Lindsey Nielsen, Mara Altman, Nancy Pick, Natalie Smith, Pablo “Rana” Diserens, Paul Williams, Ren Fergusen, Tony Wobeter, Tracy Leung, Vincent Chanter, and group shoutout to everyone on the Acoustic Ecology listserve

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