Sounds we could lose due to climate change: Leeds
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00:00 Leeds City Council has said they are committed to making Leeds carbon neutral by 2030, in
00:07 doing so according to the leeds.gov.uk website. The council have said they plan to reduce
00:12 their carbon footprint to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings
00:17 in the city and reduce the level of pollution and noise.
00:23 One direct consequence of climate change comes in the form of how it affects noises in nature.
00:28 In certain habitats, sound is the only way for most animals to communicate, whether it
00:33 be through mating songs, social status cries or alarm calls, even down to the way birds
00:39 caw and peck on your local high street. These perhaps underappreciated modes of nature could
00:44 be severely impacted by the changing climate. Now, sounds like animal noises and a creaking
00:50 glacier could be lost due to climate change. Some sonic loss is down to the destruction
00:55 of habitats, from deforestation to overfished oceans. Some machines pump so much sound into
01:01 water that some species can't hear one another.