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Photo credit: Rafael Cosquiere by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a result of my long-term research, writings and activism to reduce noise pollution and enhance quiet...
Photo credit: Xavier Lubeigt licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies According to the article by Tom Andrews, the Santa Fe City Council has...
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This opinion piece in the UK’s Guardian emphasizes how bad noise is for plants and animals living in the ocean. As author Karen Bakker, director of the University of British Columbia’s...
Photo credit: Jerry H. licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on Bloomberg.com reports on Mumbai’s plans to curb noise pollution, largely coming from the efforts of noise activist Sumaira Abdulali. Mumbai is...
Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My wife and I went to Palm Springs, California for a wedding recently. My wife knows that noise bothers me, so she requested a quiet room. She told me the...
Photo credit: Kindel Media by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 2020 Weuve et al. reported an association between community noise exposure and cognitive impairment including dementia. The paper didn’t state that noise caused dementia, only that there was...
Photo credit: Washington State Dept of Transportation 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 It has been over 40 years since I conducted my two...
Photo credit: Eslivb 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 was indeed interesting to read that Professor Susumu Hara of Nagoya University in...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Even New Yorkers deserve quiet in their lives. That’s certainly true, and that’s the headline for the opinion piece in the New York Daily News in late September. In the piece, Justin Zorn and Leigh...