Noise Pollution: The hidden costs
Twenty Thousand Hertz
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The Negative Effects of Noise Pollution
The negative effects of noise pollution aren't confined to the animal kingdom alone. Some studies suggest that even plant life can be effected. You don't often think about excess noise having a direct effect on an entire ecosystem. What's equally surprising is what happens when noise pollution begins to affect the way we act. If we start messing with these fine tune mechanisms that different species have in place to orient toward sound to perform really basic life functions, we could be messing with things that are a much larger scale than we think.
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