'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Researchers say increasing amounts of underwater noise, largely from shipping traffic, are enveloping rare right whales in "acoustic smog" that makes it harder for them to communicate.
Kathy Metcalf of the Chamber of Shipping of America said her group has no doubt noise is increasing and affecting the whales.
"We're kind of a slow industry," Metcalf said. "But the bottom line is if we could do something now that can be used as guidelines for new construction, 15 years from now, half the world's fleet would have already been built that way."
