Photo credit: Oleksandr P by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Since 2022, residents in a South Tampa neighborhood have been hearing deep bass sounds. But for years, they...
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Humans are impacting migrating animal species
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Human beings have endangered their own health and well-being by exacerbating climate change and surrounding...
Conservation groups sue Air Force to protect wilderness
Photo credit: NASA/NASA Image and Video Library by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Military.com reports that conservation groups in Oregon, Nevada and Idaho are suing the U.S. Air Force to ban low-altitude F-15 flights over the Owyhee Wilderness Area. The...
The rich tapestry of earthly sounds
Photo credit: Luis del Río by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Science journalist Dan Falk published a nice review of Caspar Henderson’s new book, "A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous," in the nonprofit digital magazine, UNDARK. I couldn’t find the...
Shipping noise interrupts whales’ communication
Photo credit: Artem Podrez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over 40 years ago, I conducted two studies that examined the impacts of train noise on children’s reading...
Research shows that oceans will be five times louder in 2100
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here is another study that not only highlights how noisy the oceans are now but also predicts that they...
A Swiss village fights to keep its cow bells
Photo credit: Helena Lopes by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This BBC article covers one Swiss village's struggle with the ongoing sound of cowbells, perceived by most...
The war on cars is also a war on noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I wasn’t aware that there’s a website called The War on Cars, but listening to this podcast by conservation scientist and now-author Paul Donald, I realized that the war on cars is also a war on...
Human noise affects monkeys’ communication
Photo credit: Rajesh Balouria by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with posts that address the impact of human-made sounds on the health and...