Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Redlined, marginalized communities tend to experience an outsized amount and volume of urban noise, a new study has found. Such unseen pollution — which has been associated with negative effects on ...

Noise pollution affects approximately 30 million workers in the United States. Here's why its detrimental health effects deserve your attention. Several months ago, I awoke at midnight to the grating ...

As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire ecosystems ...

In 2011, Germany’s Frankfurt Airport—the country’s busiest—unveiled its fourth runway. This addition sparked major protests, and for years demonstrators returned to the airport every Monday. “It’s ...

PITTSFIELD — A city resident is suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force it to crack down on harmful noise pollution that she says the EPA neglected to regulate for more than four decades.

Last June, an anti-noise advocacy group, Quiet Communities, sued the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to limit the loud sounds people are exposed to in everyday life. The group is ...

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, gave the advice in Lagos during the 3rd Annual Stakeholders Interactive Session On Noise Pollution Control In Lagos State. The ...

We humans tend to spread and frolic about wherever we please, a development that has been found to harm animals’ environments and health, and therefore ultimately our own. That may be the effect on ...

Even more surprisingly, plants themselves can produce sound waves. Recent studies have shown that stressed plants, such as those that are thirsty or injured, emit tiny clicking or popping sounds at ...