Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...
A University of Michigan study found noise pollution has a significant negative impact on wild birds. Noise can interfere with mating calls, parent-offspring communication, and predator detection.
When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic Silent Spring in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might ...
Ornithologist Katie LaBarbera arrives at the Coyote Creek Field Station in Alviso about 45 minutes before sunrise — peak time for bird activity. The early part of LaBarbera’s Sunday shift is ...
Using more than 3.4 million citizen scientist observations of 140 different bird species across the continental U.S., researchers found that common bird species avoided areas with excessive noise. In ...
At a school in Shenzhen, a tech hub in south China's Guangdong Province, students stressed over the upcoming college entrance ...