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May 31, 2008

Noise pollution continues to rise while damaging wildlife

Wildlife biologists can’t even go to Amazonia without escaping it.

Bernie Kraus, who talks about “biophony,” says wildlife tends to naturally divvy up the acoustic spectrum, but man-made noise sprawls all over that. He thinks it’s a measurable cause of species decline, and no less a heavyweight than E.O. Wilson agrees.

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