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 location, wildlife was free to roam a puma sauntered through Chile s deserted capital city, coyotes were spotted near San Francisco s Golden Gate Bridge and in New York City, residents heard more birds than traffic.
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