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Photo credit: Clément Proust by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ student-oriented publication on The Learning Network, offered by The Times to teachers and students, asks, “Is it OK to shush people who are noisy in public?" The subhead...
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition April 22 is Earth Day. I didn’t know there was an actual Earth Day organization, or that there was a theme for each Earth Day. This year’s theme is: “Our Power, Our Planet," calling for...
Photo credit: Marcin Jozwiak by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study published online ahead of print in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Health Perspectives reports that new research shows that the cumulative risk of...
Photo credit: James Cheney by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Florida Museum is currently closed for renovation, but it posted content online from the Thompson Earth Systems Institute at the University of Florida about noise pollution. The Institute...
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Photo credit: jimmy teoh by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This week, the Columbia Climate School published an article titled: “How Congestion Pricing Will Benefit New...
Photo credit: Dương Nhân by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When you read an article that states that an interdisciplinary group of researchers have received a sizable...
Photo credit: Mason Tuttle by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council CBS comedy "The Neighborhood" got some laughs by highlighting pickleball noise during a recent episode. The storyline features neighbors sharing their dismay about...
Photo credit: Zezen Zaenal Mutaqin by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The European Vox news site reports that according to the European Court of Auditors, 450 million people are at risk from noise and air pollution in European cities. European Union...