Noise pollution can be found anywhere, but it's especially bad in cities. Here's a map of the loudest places in the U.S. Not surprisingly, cities top the list. They have background levels between ...

Noise pollution, on the other hand ... “As sounds emerge out of the background, that triggers your central nervous system to say, ‘Oh my God, a lion is sneaking up on me!’” ...

Since the mid-1960s, the amount of commercial vessel traffic in Earth's oceans has nearly doubled, resulting in an almost 16-fold increase in background noise ... of sound pollution from human ...

Residents living near Waymo's charging facilities in Santa Monica are demanding immediate action over what they describe as ...

Unwanted background sounds are sometimes called noise. When the sound level of this noise rises to higher levels, we refer to this as noise pollution. Sound levels are measured on a scale known as ...

A comprehensive study by Empa and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), funded by the Swiss National Science ...