May 28
8 min read
Staff Pick
The Earth Was Silent For 4 Billion Years
Animals made no noise for 90% of the planet’s life. Now industrial noise threatens the “biophony”
We often think of the natural world as noisy — beautifully so.
When I used to camp in Ontario as a Boy Scout, the night was alive with crickets, and when we were up further north, the occasional howl of a…
