Young coral "threatened by noise pollution"
As if it's not bad enough for them with pollution, fishing by dynamiting, global warming and ocean acidification, the world's coral reefs face a new threat ? from noise.
Scientists have discovered that baby corals, in their first days as free-swimming larvae in the ocean, find their way home by listening to the noise of animals on the reef, and actively swimming towards it. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/young-coral-threatened-by-noise-pollution-1981122.html