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Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change

  • Written by Garth Paine, Associate Professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media, Arizona State University
Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental changeImagine this with a sound track -- sunset near Turtle Rock, Joshua Tree National Park.NPS / Hannah Schwalbe

Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental signifier.

Increasingly, we are...

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