In the article "Human noises block whales' songs," the term "sound pollution" wasn't very clear. Sound pollution refers to human or machine-made sounds that are displeasing to the environment around them. Sound pollution is also referred to as noise pollution. Noise comes from the Latin word "nausea" which means seasickness, originally referring to nuisance noise. This would probably help the article make more sense.
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