Silent Spring Has Arrived

Numerous studies are now documenting how natural soundscapes are changing, being disrupted and falling silent. A 2021 study in the journal Nature of 200,000 sites across North America and Europe found “pervasive loss of acoustic diversity and intensity of soundscapes across both continents over the past 25 years, driven by changes in species richness and abundance.” There’s an app for that.

Full Coverage

Watching TV coverage of the disaster in the Gulf, one could almost forget that this was about fucking up the earth and killing its living things, not just the chances of Democrats of retaining seats in the House of Representatives this fall. Almost.

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