Photo credit: Athena by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Musicians know a lot about noise and what it does to their hearing. That’s the topic discussed in a report on CNET by writer Jessica Rendall. She reports that noise causes hearing loss...
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Noise is all around us and it’s harming our health
Photo credit: Vlad Alexandru Popa by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is all around us and it’s harming our health. That’s the title of a report by Isabelle Gallant at CBC News, in Canada. Gallant reviews a wide body of research about the health...
Human-made noise is disturbing forest animals
Photo credit: David Selbert by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies High Country News, a magazine that focuses on issues in the American West, recently covered research that...
Community Noise Lab studies noise pollution in low-income communities
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In a recent Atlanta Voice article, reporter Clayton Gutzmore writes about research that the Community...
Noise from NASCAR street racing could be damaging to health
Photo credit: Alfred GF by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That NASCAR racing is loud should not be surprising nor should it be surprising that its loud sounds may pose...
How do I block out annoying sounds from my noisy neighborhood?
Photo credit: Vlad Fonsark by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "How do I block out annoying sounds from my noisy neighborhood?" That’s the question posed and answered on The New York Times’ product review site Wirecutter, in response from someone who...
The sound of silence
Photo credit: Dương Nhân by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I used to like listening to the Simon and Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence, and that’s a good title for this blog post about a study in the well-regarded scientific...
Seattle-area residents sue local port and major airlines for toxic pollution
Photo credit: SounderBruce, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0 by Elaine Miller, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Co-founder, Quiet American Skies, member. Justice is the cornerstone of a civilized society. True freedom lies in the tenet that justice will be rightly...
Pickleball noise is disruptive to nearby residents
Photo credit: TheVillagesFL, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For nearly a decade and a half, Mary McKee loved the tranquility her home...