{"id":3592,"date":"2026-06-29T10:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:34:07","slug":"shipping-noise-exceeds-limits-in-the-strait-of-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/shipping-noise-exceeds-limits-in-the-strait-of-gibraltar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Noise Exceeds Limits in the Strait of Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a major global shipping route, the Strait of Gibraltar sees more than 60,000 cargo ships pass through annually, and the constant noise from shipping is approaching the hearing threshold of pilot whales. The latest observations show that pilot whales must deliberately raise their vocal volume to communicate. Long-term vocal overexertion has led to physiological strain, and the probability of calves losing contact with their mothers has risen significantly. Over the past two years, the number of pilot whales that have stranded or starved to death has increased by 65% year-over-year. The noise from heavy shipping traffic has become the greatest hidden threat to whales and dolphins in these waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a major global shipping route, the Strait of Gibraltar sees more than 60,000 cargo ships pass through annually, and the constant noise from shipping is approaching the hearing threshold of pilot whales. The latest observations show that pilot whales must deliberately raise their vocal volume to communicate. Long-term vocal overexertion has led to physiological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}