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Noisy nuisance
Photo credit: Nik from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A letter to the editor in a recent edition of the Vineyard Gazette on Martha’s Vineyard includes a compelling description of the annoyance caused by noisy gas-powered leaf blowers and the...
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Photo credit: John Beagle, licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council If you live near a pickleball court, you’ll know exactly what that sound described in the title of this post is, and you’re probably tired...
Why are we expected to be quiet in an art gallery?
Photo credit: Riccardo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Guardian has a feature in which a question is posed and the public replies. The paper describes it as, “The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ question on subjects...
Offshore wind farm construction makes lobsters’ hearts skip a beat
Photo credit: Pixabay by Halimat Olunlade, Social Media Manager, Quiet Communities News outlet Vermont Public published an article last fall that sheds light on another sonic issue impacting marine wildlife: pile driving. Pile driving involves driving long steel posts...
New York townships sue FAA over airport noise
Photo credit: Asad Photo Maldives by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition and Abigail Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities Two townships in New York State have filed a joint lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration alleging that over a million...
Loud restaurants may endanger hearing
Photo credit: Kyle Lui by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNET reports that loud restaurants may endanger the hearing of patrons and workers alike. This is not new information. Restaurant noise has been an issue for years. Research presented at the...
These communities pulled the plug on pickleball
Photo credit: City of Greenville, North Carolina, licensed under PDM 1.0 by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council My dad always told us kids, "If you make a mistake, just fess up and move on." Recently, two communities finally...
Noise pollution threatens endangered whales
Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by Abigail Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities The proliferation of oil and gas drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico will threaten an endangered whale species, an environmental group argued in the United States...
Cate Blanchett hates leaf blowers
Photo credit: Vlad Vasnetsov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Architectural Digest reports on Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett’s decades-long fight against leaf blowers. Although the fight is against all leaf blowers, I suspect that gas-powered leaf blowers...
FCC seeks public comment on law governing noise
Photo credit: Lisa from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Federal Communication Commission announced that it is seeking public input on coming updates to rules related to the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. It has been...
Our noisy world is damaging our health
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Noise exposure, hearing loss and cognitive impairment
Photo credit: lil artsy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The February 2025 issue of Frontiers in Public Health has an article by Chinese researchers reporting a correlation between noise exposure, occupational hearing loss and cognitive impairment. The...