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Noise pollution harms wildlife
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Ah, a nice quiet walk in the woods. Birds are singing. A bullfrog is calling his "Jug-o-rum." And insects are quietly buzzing.
But, what's that? VROOOMMMM. Trucks and cars roar from the highway. A motorcycle revs its engine. An airplane flies overhead.
Even in rural areas, highway noise blasts through an oak woodland.
Thomas Schulenberg is not surprised.
"You can't go anywhere in this country without noise pollution," said Schulenberg, a conservation ecologist at the Field Museum.
And while Schulenberg said noise pollution is bothering humans, it also could be affecting the very wildlife ...
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Louis Riel: Harry Somers' Canadian Grand Opera revived at McGill University.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada
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Government could grant (Louis) Riel's exoneration.
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Louis Riel: Story in a pouch
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Revisiting Riel's conviction. (Explorations).(Louis Riel)
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Riel's life celebrated.(Riel, Louis)(Biography)
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The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
; ...time in Metis history since the Riel wars has the destiny of the...the arrival of new studies of Louis Riel and the Metis people most...thematic literary portrayals of Louis Riel. Chapter one outlines...s, including his parents, Louis Sr. and Julie Riel, Marie...
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Riel Reflections.(Book Review)(The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture)(Book Review)
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L is for Louis Riel
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Image of Louis Riel in 1998.
Magazine article from: Canadian Speeches
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