How to minimize your 'noise footprint' | Paige Towers
Noise pollution is an environmental and public health crisis. Here are some simple steps to fight back
by Paige Towers
Jun 07, 2019
3 minutes
The modern world is too loud. Noise pollution wreaks havoc on the behavioral patterns and stress levels of wildlife. Ecosystems shift in the wake of chronic noise: seed dispersers, pollinators and their predators avoid the clamor, thus changing the landscape of plants and trees. And, as the New Yorker reported earlier this month, all this human-made noise is responsible for a public health crisis for humans, too – causing hearing damage, high blood pressure, heart disease, low birth weight, and disrupted sleep on a mass scale.
The takeaway? We are literally
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