The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And ...

UCLA brain scientists, health equity advocates and L.A. nonprofit Esperanza Housing are teaming up to study the combined effect of noise pollution and excessive heat on the brain health and behavior ...

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. The ...

Let’s take a look at some of the surprising health effects triggered by this problem.

Road traffic noise is associated with a higher risk of an infertility diagnosis among women aged over 35, a new study has revealed. But now, researchers in Denmark have discovered new factors that ...

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 ...

Source: Clker-free-vector-images, pixabay. My body was vibrating. My ears were ringing. My brain was numb. My heart was pounding. No, I was not ill nor had I just fallen in love. I was still ...

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic Silent Spring in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might create a silent future. Forty years later, biologists uncovered a striking ...

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 ...

Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...