Sounds we could lose due to climate change: Liverpool
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00:00 In 2019, Liverpool City Council declared that planet Earth is facing a climate change emergency.
00:06 As a result, the council set out an action plan to see Liverpool become a net-zero city
00:11 by 2030. In this, it's reported that it's hoped the city will have stopped all contributions
00:16 to climate change. But even despite efforts, the climate crisis continues to have unprecedented
00:22 consequences.
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.