Photo credit: Ingo Joseph by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The magazine Current Affairs just published Sophie Elliot’s article "What Noise Pollution is Doing to Us." Elliot summarizes a large body of research documenting the adverse effects of noise...
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How to deal with noise pollution in Cork City, Ireland
Photo credit: Douglas Pfeiffer Cardoso licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies John Beausang and Yvonne Rayne, Cork City’s Citizens Information...
Noise pollution maps let us see our “dumb environments”
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies After starting out his article by noting that for people living in urban environment silence “is likely only...
Urban planners and the regulation of sound in our cities
Photo credit: Riccardo by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Now that the soundscapes have for the most part returned to pre-pandemic form, Rob Walker, writing for the...
Israel to ban noisy jumbo jets from Ben Gurion Airport
Photo credit: albedo20 licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies An airport engaging in an activity to reduce noise and air pollution by banning...
Sierra Club recognizes noise pollution as a problem
Photo credit: Natalie Dmay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, discusses noise pollution as a problem. Author Krystal Vasquez thought that noise wasn’t a problem compared to other forms of pollution...
The ocean is not a quiet place
Photo credit: Trygve Finkelsen by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report by PhD candidate Thomas Uboldi, University of Quebec at Rimouski, on Phys.org discusses noise pollution in the world’s oceans. Uboldi notes that many still think oceans are...
Noise pollution is on the rise in India
Photo credit: Bhavesh Jain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the Deccan Herald, based in Bengaluru, India (formerly known as Bangalore), discusses the rise in noise pollution as the city recovers from COVID lockdowns. Noise levels are...
Why are cetaceans stranding themselves on China’s coasts?
Photo credit: 7inchs by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cetaceans are whales. What’s leaving them stranded on China’s coasts? The Sixth Tone website--surprisingly (at least to me), sponsored by the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party--claims...