Sensory Pollution
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 09:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Earlier this summer, I attended the joint meeting of the Animal Behavior Society and the International Ethological Conference, held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. One of the symposia on the first day of the conference focused on the idea of "sensory pollution," a new buzz-term collectively describing the negative effects of human activities and products on the ability of animals to accurately perceive the world around them. In addition to the noise pollution that I have often described in previous posts, experts spoke on the impacts of pollution from light, chemicals, and sources of magnetism. read more