Photo credit: David McElwee by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am writing again about noise leading to a violent act. In this case, an Oakland, California resident...
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Violent responses to noise complaints
Photo credit: Tony Webster licensed under 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 Skie As the GrowNYC board member who oversees our noise activities, I receive many...
Amsterdam’s airport proposes banning night flights, private jets to cut noise
Photo credit: Shirley de Jong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I am often asked by people impacted by aircraft noise when their local...
Quiet victory: Garage bell hell silenced
Photo credit: Enric Cruz López by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In an earlier post, readers were told about a lawsuit brought by a resident in a St. Petersburg...
“Sonic Sea” screening
Image courtesy of Sound Defense Alliance by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of The Quiet Coalition posts know that noise does not just harm humans--research has...
Link shown between transportation noise and higher suicide risk
Photo credit: Liza Summer by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Swiss researchers looking into the impact of environmental factors on mental health have found that...
U.S. Army jets are stressing out lizards
Photo credit: Koopasteve licensed under 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 It is understood that aircraft noise, including the noise from military jets,...
Road traffic noise linked to high blood pressure
Photo credit: Thirdman by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Prevention reports on a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology linking road traffic noise exposure to high blood pressure. The association of noise exposure to hypertension is...
Stressed plants make sounds
Photo credit: Eva Bronzini by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Apparently, humans and animals are not the only living things that make sounds. Katie Hunt, CNN SPACE+...