Noise harms Birds and Other Wildlife
Effects of noise on Wildlife. U.S. National Park Service. Links to 800 studies.
Effect of Noise on Birds and Other Wildlife. Interview with ecologist Jesse Barber, Sept 2024
Jesse Barber’s “Phantom Highway Experiment”. Proceedings of the Royal Society, December 2013
The Affects of Anthropogenic Noise on Animals. November 2019
Smithsonian Magazine: Noise Pollution Might Cut Birds’ Lives Short.
August 2018
Sierra Magazine. Is Constant Human Noise Stressing out Wildlife?
February 2018
Science News. “Human noise can be bad news for animals“. February 2015
Anthropogenic noise: report on various studies on animals at molecular and physiological levels. 2011
Noise Harms Insects
Insect Hive. “How Human Noise Pollution Disrupts Insect Communication“. June 25, 2025
Anthropogenic noise affects insects and arachnids. Communications Biology. October 2021
Impact of environmental noise on insects’ physiology and ethology – A Study on ants as models. September 2018
Even Insects Hate Traffic: How Noise Affects the Song Patterns of Tree Crickets. April, 2016
Noise Harms Plants
Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise. Communications Biology. June 2021
Traffic noise induces oxidative stress and phytohormone imbalance in two urban plant species. Basic and Applied Ecology. May 2022
Audubon Magazine. Why Cities are Taking Action to Limit Loud, Polluting Care. Spring 2021
The Atlantic. (Video). The ‘Public Health Menace’ of Fall in America. James Fallows. 2019
