The 5 senses of spring: How climate change is shaping our seasonal experience
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Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the climate, our experience of the season is changing, too.
Singing frogs are looking for love. Sweet sap is flowing from the maple trees. Striking migratory birds are returning to their northerly nests.
Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the climate, our experience of the season is changing, too.
Here are just a few of the ways that climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is transforming our spring senses.
It sounds a bit like a finger running over a fine-tooth comb, but it’s about as loud as a lawn mower.
It’s hard to spot — at only 2.5 centimetres long — but when the chorus frog emerges in early spring its mating call can be heard from a kilometre away.
To Jeffrey Ethier, it’s the most iconic sound of spring’s arrival.
“You can kind of feel your eardrums vibrating,” said Ethier, a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa who specializes in recording and studying their calls.
But that iconic sound is in trouble.
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