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– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink

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Noise exposure associated with hearing loss in women

Noise exposure associated with hearing loss in women

Photo credit: Mikael Blomkvist by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Research from China, published in the open-access BMC Public Health, found that occupational noise exposure was associated with hearing loss and hypertension in female workers. We usually...

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Is it bad to listen to music all the time?

Is it bad to listen to music all the time?

Photo credit: Charlotte May by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition  Is it bad to listen to music all the time? That is the question that Hussein, a teenager from Iraq asked the Curious Kids site, and reported on the U.S. edition of The Conversation. The...

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A ‘silent revolution’ coming to California ports

A ‘silent revolution’ coming to California ports

Photo credit: Klaus by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this year, I wrote about the electrification of construction vehicles, ferries and tarmac vehicles in Norway. I didn’t think similar environmental progress would be made in the United States...

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A Comic Con for all

A Comic Con for all

Photo credit: khairul nizam by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I was delighted to read that the Gillen Brewer School, a private school on the Upper East Side of...

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Bitcoin and AI endanger the environment

Bitcoin and AI endanger the environment

Photo credit: Tara Winstead by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Data processing centers for bitcoin mines and artificial intelligence (AI) endanger both health and the environment.  There has been a wealth of reporting about noise from bitcoin mines and...

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Singer Vanessa Carlton files noise-related lawsuit

Singer Vanessa Carlton files noise-related lawsuit

Photo credit: Life Of Pix by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Like so any residents in the United States who have purchased homes in areas that they believed would be...

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“I am seeing a lot more interest and growing awareness about the adverse impacts of noise on health and I hope this will lead to policies that will be focused on noise abatement… Organizations such as Quiet Communities have made an impact on educating people to the dangers of noise and suggesting ways that we can reduce noise pollution.”

– Arline Bronzaft, PhD