The term "noise pollution" refers to unwanted or annoying sounds that happen around you. Machinery, amplified music, noisy vehicles, and other things can cause it. When you hear loud sounds ...

Today, host Emily Kwong talks to health reporter Joanne Silberner about those health costs, what is too loud and some of the history of legislation to limit noise pollution in the United States.

By Emily Baumgaertner Emily Baumgaertner has been reporting on noise pollution and its effects on public health and well-being. Noise affects everybody differently. Some city dwellers feel as if ...

Research from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet shows that air pollution and traffic noise together may pose a greater risk for stroke than either factor alone.

An Air Force veteran is calling on the Navy to permanently ground its iconic Blue Angels air displays in Seattle because the beloved performances are too loud and cause pollution. Spectators ...

The committee’s recommendations cover varied forms of noise emission ... pollution via loudspeakers is Police inactions. The Facebook page of the National Coalition Against Noise Pollution is replete ...

Sound is central to life underwater. The list of marine creatures that are known to rely on sound for navigation, communication and much more is growing, as is the awareness of the complex ways in ...