# How human noise affects ocean habitats

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCERN
- Speaker: Kate Stafford
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment, Society and politics, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_stafford_how_human_noise_affects_ocean_habitats)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Oceanographer Kate Stafford lowers us into the sonically rich depths of the Arctic Ocean, where ice groans, whales sing to communicate over vast distances -- and climate change and human noise threaten to alter the environment in ways we don't understand. Learn more about why this underwater soundscape matters and what we might do to protect it.

## Lectures

1. [How human noise affects ocean habitats](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kate_stafford_how_human_noise_affects_ocean_habitats/031ac166bf20), 12 min (TED's player)