'A Great Silence Is Spreading Over the Natural World' | Common Dreams

'A Great Silence Is Spreading Over the Natural World' | Common Dreams:

"Bernie Krause has spent 40 years recording nature's sounds. But such is the rate of species and habitat loss that his tapes may become our only record of the original diversity of life"

You experience it everywhere, in little ways. All the butterflies we used to see in our yard a decade ago -- and not in recent years.