How we could lose sounds due to climate change: Newcastle
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00:00 In 2019, the council declared a climate emergency to make Newcastle carbon neutral by 2030.
00:06 To achieve this, the council set out three key aims to work collaboratively across the
00:10 city in order to shape the approach to climate change.
00:14 This included a net zero task force, a climate change committee and a citizens' assembly.
00:19 Even despite efforts, the climate crisis continues to have 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.
00:41 These perhaps underappreciated modes of nature could be severely impacted by the changing
00:46 climate.
00:47 Now, sounds like animal noises and a creaking glacier could be lost due to climate change.
00:53 Some sonic loss is down to the destruction of habitats, from deforestation to overfished oceans.
00:59 Some machines pump so much sound into water that some species can't hear one another.