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Leaf blowers may clear debris quickly, but their extreme noise and emissions can harm hearing, air quality, and the ...

For more than 100 million years, trees have dropped their leaves every fall, creating a protective layer of duff that provides cover for snails, bees, and butterflies. Decaying leaves fertilized the ...

The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take a leaf blower, but make it quiet. Make it work as powerfully as ever, but do not allow it to emit the ear-piercing caterwaul ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – The sound of leaf blowers is stirring up questions about whether a town noise ordinance can be enforced if the popular tool is excessively loud. Residents will be asked to submit ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Maybe it’s me, but it definitely seems to be getting noisier on Staten Island. And I’m not talking just about those cars with modified engines that go screaming all over the ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Town Board members are considering changes to a noise law dealing with gas-powered leaf blowers. Resident Rudy McEntire during a meeting Tuesday asked for the changes and suggested ...

See if you can hear this: you’re sitting on your porch drinking your morning coffee. The cool, crisp air blows through the leaves on the tree, or the equivalent of 20 decibels. Off in the distance you ...