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...
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Perceiving the world as animals do
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The pandemic, as I wrote earlier, allowed more people to focus on the pleasant environmental sounds around them....
How can we reduce noise pollution in our seas?
Photo credit: Agustin Piñero by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Gabriella Sotelo’s article on Treehugger.com highlights the adverse impact of ocean noises on the lives of...
Human-made noise is disturbing forest animals
Photo credit: David Selbert by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies High Country News, a magazine that focuses on issues in the American West, recently covered research that...
Everyday household noise can take a toll on dogs
Photo credit: Sergio Souza by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Many readers of our posts are familiar with dog barking as a noise source, though not a major one. But...
Human-made noise is altering the sounds of the sea
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As readers of The Quiet Coalition blog know, human-made noise can adversely affect the well-being of...
Boat noise temporarily deafens squid
Photo credit: Pascal Ingelrest by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am again writing about the dangers of noise to a species, in this case squid, other than human...
“Sonic Sea” screening
Image courtesy of Sound Defense Alliance by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of The Quiet Coalition posts know that noise does not just harm humans--research has...
U.S. Army jets are stressing out lizards
Photo credit: Koopasteve licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It is understood that aircraft noise, including the noise from military jets,...