Why the warming oceans will get louder

Get the Full StoryEvery 10 minutes, the relentlessly warming oceans absorb 50 megatons of energy, the amount of energy released when detonating the largest-ever atomic bomb.

These warming seas which soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth harbor a particularly loud critter found all over the world: the snapping shrimp. The shrimp make an omnipresent background noise similar to static, or frying bacon, or crinkled paper. And new evidence points to a future where snapping shrimp may get significantly louder as the oceans continue to warm a big environmental change for the many creatures inhabiting bustling reefs. Read more...More about Science, Climate Change, Oceans, Noise, and Science

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