The Not-So-Silent World

In 1956, the French adventurer and SCUBA inventor Jacques Cousteau published a book called The Silent World about Earth's oceans. Cousteau's book is widely credited with giving rise to a new awareness of the seas' beauty and fragility."He picked a bad title," said Arthur Popper, professor emeritus in biology at the University of Maryland in College Park. The oceans are not silent. In fact, they are louder than ever. And that, scientists believe, is a problem.The creatures that dwell in the ocean...