{"id":1407,"date":"2025-01-08T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:10:12","slug":"how-sound-pollution-is-killing-norways-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"How sound pollution is killing Norway&#8217;s whales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-1024x676.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-768x507.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GP0STPL90-2048x1351.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A pod of Orca whales spyhop in Kvaloya Sound near the arctic city of Tromso. jre\/Photo by Jiri Rezac\/Greenpeace <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, what do you associate with whale song? Serene, peaceful, open oceans perhaps? Well, according to Ocean Sounds, a Norwegian-based marine mammal organisation, today\u2019s reality is quite different. Sound pollution from boats and oil exploration is threatening whales and dolphins\u2019 very existence. I spoke to their director and founder, Dr Heike Vester, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-26-december-2024\/audio-71159298\">Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BEVANGER-Whales-sound-pollution.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, what do you associate with whale song? Serene, peaceful, open oceans perhaps? Well, according to Ocean Sounds, a Norwegian-based marine mammal organisation, today\u2019s reality is quite different. Sound pollution from boats and oil exploration is threatening whales and dolphins\u2019 very existence. I spoke to their director and founder, Dr Heike Vester, for Inside Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}