Imagine walking through a field on a cloudless day when you suddenly hear the 130-decibel roar of a fighter jet. But you can’t spot the jet, or even tell which direction the sound is coming from.
It turns out that loud noise is not just annoying, but it also has significant negative effects in the body. An intriguing study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in 2004, ...
Noise pollution is nothing new: An 1856 editorial in London’s Times complained of the city’s “noisy, dizzy, scatterbrained atmosphere,” and in 1866, American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne groused that ...
Noise pollution is nothing new: An 1856 editorial in London’s Times complained of the city’s “noisy, dizzy, scatterbrained atmosphere,” and in 1866, American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne groused that ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm on excessive noise that kids and teens are exposed to. They're warning that it might have permanent consequences. A new ...
New research shows that loud noise significantly damages the ears of fish in the wild. In the first ever study of the effects of loud man-made, or anthropogenic, sound on fish in the wild, University ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Officials from the City of Houston held a press conference to discuss the new noise ordinance that went into effect Tuesday. The ordinance was passed in May and is a welcome ...
Parents: You want your baby to sleep soundly so that you can sleep too, right? So maybe you bought a machine that will play soothing sounds in the nursery. And maybe you crank up the volume so that ...
Berkeley County officials are implementing a countywide noise ordinance, which they feel is solid enough to enforce without infringing on the personal freedoms of residents. The new law first gets rid ...