Sounds we could lose due to climate change: Bristol
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00:00 Bristol City Council has previously set out a One City Climate Strategy which
00:05 sets out the need for the city to work together in order to prepare and adapt
00:09 buildings to cope with climate risks as well as the hopes to improve resilience
00:14 through strategy and long-term planning. But even despite efforts the climate
00:18 crisis continues to have unprecedented consequences.
00:22 One direct consequence of climate change comes in the form of how it affects
00:27 noises in nature. In certain habitats sound is the only way for most animals
00:32 to communicate whether it be through mating songs, social status cries or
00:36 alarm calls, even down to the way birds call and peck on your local high street.
00:41 These perhaps underappreciated modes of nature could be severely impacted by the
00:46 changing climate. Now sounds like animal noises and a creaking glacier could be
00:51 lost due to climate change. Some sonic loss is down to the destruction of
00:55 habitats from deforestation to overfished oceans. Some machines pump so
01:00 much sound into water that some species can't hear one another.