Saving the World's Last Quiet Places
Saving the World's Last Quiet Places Newsweek 1 day ago Kathleen Rellihan After the Great Quiet descended during the COVID-19 lockdown, we saw what the power of silence could do—to our overstimulated brains and to the natural world. It was so quiet from March to May 2020, that scientists determined this "seismic silence" to be the longest period of quiet in recorded history. © Edmund Lowe Photography/Getty Edmund Lowe Photography/Getty While we might have become more creative, whales migrated closer to shore due to the lack of ship noise interfering with their sound loc...