One in five Europeans is regularly exposed to noise levels that could "significantly" damage their health, the World Health Organization says, and it updated guidelines on those levels in Europe on ...

Light and noise pollution are "neglected pollutants", poorly understood, poorly regulated, and in need of renewed focus, according to a parliamentary committee report. Noise and light pollution ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. UCLA brain scientists, health equity advocates and L.A. nonprofit Esperanza Housing are teaming up to study the ...

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.

Noise pollution generated by human activity in certain areas of Antarctica could be having a negative effect on the well-being of the area's fauna, according to a study by the University of the ...