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What we learned when the world went quiet
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:20:32
Publish Date: 2021-11-12 10:00:00
Description:

Humans make a lot of noise – in our streets, in the skies and in our seas. All this anthropogenic clamour is not just annoying, it can be detrimental to the health of both humans and animals. But scientists have never really had a chance to study just how much noise we produce and what would happen if we stopped producing it … until the COVID-19 global pandemic sent most of the world into a lockdown in early 2020.

This temporary silencing of a lot of human activity was a silver lining to the pandemic as it provided scientists with conditions to conduct experiments and learn about the natural world. Today on the show we speak to three Canadian researchers who all listened and learned during the Great Quieting of early 2020.

Thanks to Dr. Nicola Koper, Dr. William Minarik and Dr. David Barclay.
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