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Photo credit: Aayush Srivastava from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The literature linking noise to adverse health effects has grown stronger these last few...
Photo credit: Michelle Cipriano licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The National Park Service noise maps show that without anthropogenic sounds--that is, human influenced sounds--nature is quiet. The top map shows existing...
Photo credit: Daria Shevtsova from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg, like many other writers this past year and a half, has become more in tune to the sounds around...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. And just in time, the adaptation of a paper published during the summer in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics with Jan Mayes was published in the October issue of The...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Milton Keynes is a small city about 50 miles north of London with a population of 230,000 in its urban area. As reported in The MKCitizen, city officials will be introducing legislation to ban noisy fireworks. The reason?...
Photo credit: New York City Department of Transportation licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In an earlier blog I wrote about the New York State Legislature considering a bill to...
This image by AlexChirkin has been dedicated to the public domain by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This Healthy Hearing article on temporary threshold shift or muffled hearing after noise exposure varies between strong statements and caveats. I disagree with the...
Photo credit: Bryon Lippincott licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The United News of Bangladesh reports that the Department of Environment there has designated three areas there as silent zones. Two are around hospitals and...
Photo credit: JULIO NERY from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have covered how many animal species--on land, in the air, and in the water--responded to the reduction in anthropogenic noise caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, but we are writing...