Why Silence is Going Extinct

Olympic National Park's Hoh Rain Forest is among the only places on Earth to escape noise pollution- but it's getting louder. 📧 Contact Me: [email protected] 📸 Instagram:   / aidinrobbins   Quiet Parks International: https://www.quietparks.org/ Original sound recordings courtesy of Matthew Mikkelsen: https://www.sprucetonefilms.com/ Further Reading: Gordon Hempton & John Grossman- One Square Inch of silence: One man's quest to preserve quiet: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/one-... World Heritage Outlook: https://worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org... Growler Study: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/11/923 Manhattan school study: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time... Noise exposure and public health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Harvard Medicine: https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/vira... Health risks caused by environmental noise in Europe: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publication... Newspaper articles: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11834... https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11834... Maps: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4262y.y... https://www.loc.gov/item/73696488/ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3882s.c... https://www.loc.gov/item/2010592543/