Paris succeeds in reducing noise pollution, but urban birds still cannot sing at their natural pitch

A black box attached to a streetlight. It has a picture of a bird on it. Traffic is blurred in the background.

When Rachel Carson wrote an environmental classic silent spring In 1962, she warned that unchecked impacts on humans could create a quiet future. Forty years later, biologists have discovered the striking effects of noise pollution on songbirds. They found that low-pitched traffic noise forced birds to sing at higher pitches in European cities. Songbirds in … Read more