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"These findings are crucial, as data on aquatic environments is both scarce and challenging to gather, especially in remote regions like the polar seas or deep oceans, both of which are sensitive to climate change," Dr Doubleday says.

Yields climb when prices fall, and have been especially sensitive to concerns that fiscal policy could fuel inflation.

"The possibility that neural circuits that control something as fundamental as energy balance are sensitive to activity alone during key periods of development suggests that there may be a wide variety of factors impacting hypothalamic development through this mechanism," Simerly said.

The homebuilding sector, meanwhile, is so sensitive to interest rate policy that some economists believe that the “business cycle” is better understood as the housing cycle.

In particular, cetaceans such as whales and dolphins are likely to be sensitive to the noises and increased marine traffic brought by these turbines.