{"id":689214,"date":"2021-05-05T04:12:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T08:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=689214"},"modified":"2021-05-05T04:12:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T08:12:40","slug":"without-commuter-traffic-pandemic-era-drivers-are-speeding-up-increasing-noise-pollution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=689214","title":{"rendered":"Without commuter traffic, pandemic-era drivers are speeding up, increasing noise pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pandemic lockdowns went into effect in March 2020 and millions of Americans began working from home rather than commuting to offices, heavy traffic in America&#8217;s most congested urban centers\u2014like Boston\u2014suddenly ceased to exist. Soon afterwards, the air was noticeably cleaner. But that wasn&#8217;t the only effect. A team of Boston University biologists who study how human-related sounds impact natural environments seized the opportunity to learn how the reduced movement of people would impact local ecosystems. They found\u2014surprisingly\u2014that sound levels increased in some nature conservation areas, a result of cars driving faster on roads no longer choked by traffic.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-commuter-traffic-pandemic-era-drivers-noise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Without commuter traffic, pandemic-era drivers are speeding up, increasing noise pollution<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pandemic lockdowns went into effect in March 2020 and millions of Americans began working from home rather than commuting to offices, heavy traffic in America&#8217;s most congested urban centers\u2014like&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}