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Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft interviewed for the New York Times
Photo credit: Susan Santoro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft was mentioned in a recent article in The New York Times about noise and noise cameras in New York City. The story appeared in both the Metropolitan and...
Bay Area legislators seek action from the FAA
Photo credit: Tae Fuller by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jordan Parker informs us that five congressional...
Welsh government passes air and noise pollution bill
Photo credit: Lisa Fotios by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The number of studies that link noise to adverse health effects have been increasing the past few years....
Loud noise is damaging our ears
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from an Oklahoma television station emphasizes that excessive noise exposure that causes hearing loss and tinnitus is a serious problem in that state. But it’s actually a...
Tinnitus could be the brain’s way of coping with nerve damage
Photo credit: Buro Millennial by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Science Alert discusses research that auditory damage is linked to tinnitus. Reporter Jess Cockerill writes that tinnitus could be the brain’s way of coping with nerve damage...
“Eerie hum” from Virginia data centers keeps locals up at night
Photo credit: Robert Scoble, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Loudon County, Virginia can now boast that it has 175 data centers that...
Urban noise pollution harms people and wildlife
Photo credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies New research from Colorado State University links urban noise pollution to the historical practice...
Estrogen may help protect against hearing loss
Photo credit: Fox by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Research out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shows that estrogen may help protect against hearing loss. Here’s a link to the research article for those who want to read it. It has long...