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Photo credit: Ajfidelity, licensed under the Public Domain by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition On Sunday, March 30, the New York Racing Association cancelled eight scheduled races at Aqueduct Racetrack because noise from a nearby event had the...
Photo credit: melikeobscura by Halimat Olunlade, Social Media Manager Noise impacts all forms of life, even in the world's most remote areas. The Galapagos Islands, which once inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, are now helping us understand the effects of...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Jean-Christophe André by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I've noticed more news articles that speak to the harmful effects that human-made noises have on...
Photo credit: Ivan Cujic by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In New York City, around the Fourth of July, many residents complain about illegal fireworks in their...
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop by Halimat Olunlade, Social Media Manager Some might assume that noise pollution only affects humans, but a hidden crisis is unfolding beneath the waves. Manmade noise beneath the ocean’s surface creates what experts call an “acoustic...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Just as the interest in the adverse effects of noise on humans has grown, so too has the interest in the effects...
Photo credit: en:User:Cburnett, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Listen up: new insights into little penguins’ sensitivity to noise." That’s the title of a report on the Science Daily website, but I think the title is...