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Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Just as the interest in the adverse effects of noise on humans has grown, so too has the interest in the effects...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Former Boston Herald Sunday Magazine gardening columnist Catherine Greenleaf moved to Vermont some years ago, became interested in birds and now records the Birdhugger podcast twice a month. She...
Photo credit: 42 North by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The fact that traffic noise is harmful to humans has been discussed at length in this blog, but this post will...
Photo credit: Mike B by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition If you ask any child,“What sounds did dinosaurs make?” he or she will almost invariably make a roar. But a new scientific report, covered in Japan's The Asahi Shimbun and other news outlets, reports...
Photo credit: David Cossey by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies During the pandemic, I wrote a number of posts on articles that noted how pleased many people were to hear...
Photo credit: JULIO NERY from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have covered how many animal species--on land, in the air, and in the water--responded to the reduction in anthropogenic noise caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, but we are writing...
Photo credit: jlh_lunasea licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A Boise State University study found that birds and bats avoid noisy areas and this includes natural loud sounds as well....
Photo credit: Ashithosh U from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There have been many reports about how urban quiet caused by pandemic lockdowns allowed city dwellers to appreciate birds and their songs. This report in Salon about a Spanish study...
Photo credit: Sid Mosdell licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The COVID pandemic has given people an opportunity to reflect on how the noises of urban life impact on the wildlife...