"The question is: how much of this effect is due to particle pollution, and how much is noise?” the study author asked. If you’ve ever worked in a retail environment in which the same playlist is spun ...

Noise pollution causes stress-related conditions like anxiety, high blood pressure and insomnia SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mike Thomson’s friends refuse to stay at his house anymore. Thomson lives about 50 ...

Redlined, marginalized communities tend to experience an outsized amount and volume of urban noise, a new study has found. Such unseen pollution — which has been associated with negative effects on ...

Chronic exposure to unwanted aircraft, traffic and construction noise may harm psychological and cardiovascular health. (Getty Images) If you live in a city, near a highway or within several miles of ...

DEAR DOCTOR: My son just got a job working construction, which means he’s surrounded by noise pretty much all the time. A family friend says he read that all that noise might be bad for my son’s ...

It may be no surprise that New York City is America's noisiest city. But one possible solution to decrease noise pollution may come as a surprise: introducing more park space in urban environments.

Last June, an anti-noise advocacy group, Quiet Communities, sued the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to limit the loud sounds people are exposed to in everyday life. The group is ...

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The study recommends including measures against noise pollution in the management plans of Antarctica’s protected areas The study focuses specifically on examining whether the noise caused by the ...

Organisms on earth have a variety of defense mechanisms that allow effective survival. Types of environmental stimuli trigger these defense mechanisms, which can be effective in protecting the ...

A new study links exposure to traffic noise to high blood pressure. Exposure to air pollution also raised the risk. A growing body of evidence finds an association between noise pollution and high ...

About two years ago, Karim Douïeb saw a map of Brussels, where he lived, in a local paper. The accompanying article talked about noise pollution in the city, but he didn’t think the map did the ...