Photo credit: Sergio Souza by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Many readers of our posts are familiar with dog barking as a noise source, though not a major one. But...
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Human-made noise is altering the sounds of the sea
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As readers of The Quiet Coalition blog know, human-made noise can adversely affect the well-being of...
Brits obsessed with noise complaints
Photo credit: Murad Murat by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That noise complaints, including those made against neighbors, have increased over the past years in the UK...
Boat noise temporarily deafens squid
Photo credit: Pascal Ingelrest by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am again writing about the dangers of noise to a species, in this case squid, other than human...
More calls to crack down on noisy cars
Photo credit: Khunkorn Laowisit by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a long-term researcher and writer on the adverse impacts of noise on our health and well-being and...
The effect of F-35 aircraft noise on young children’s brains
Photo credit: Soly Moses by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the latest episode of Skywatch, a TV and online program that hopes to ground the F-35 training flights, Dr....
Once again, a violent response to noise
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...
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...