Photo credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies New research from Colorado State University links urban noise pollution to the historical practice...
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The war on cars is also a war on noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I wasn’t aware that there’s a website called The War on Cars, but listening to this podcast by conservation scientist and now-author Paul Donald, I realized that the war on cars is also a war on...
Human noise affects monkeys’ communication
Photo credit: Rajesh Balouria by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with posts that address the impact of human-made sounds on the health and...
Noise cameras coming to the Upper West Side
Photo credit: Momos, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Upper West Side of Manhattan registered as many as 25,000 noise complaints to 311...
The noise queen of New York City
Photo credit: Arline Bronzaft by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition New York Magazine’s Curbed recently published a wonderful interview with the Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft, PhD, dubbing her “the de facto noise queen of New York City.” That’s quite an...
‘Silence is golden,’ says Irish citizen
Photo credit: Steven Hylands by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The title of this article by Irishman Trevor Laffan is, “Both in the streets and the home…silence is...
Blind birders use soundscapes to “see,” but noise pollution is making it harder
Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Alexandra Marvar’s recent article in the New York Times explores the importance of birding to Susan Glass, a...
The number of people sickened or killed by air pollution is increasing
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent article in the Journal of the American Heart Association reported that the number of people sickened or killed by air pollution is increasing worldwide. Researchers used the Global Burden of...
UK Parliament calls for light and noise pollution advisory group
Photo credit: Ollie Craig by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies “Light and noise pollution ‘are neglected health hazards,' say peers” is the headline of the Guardian article...