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 ...

The ocean soundtrack of the popular imagination is a largely silent one, interrupted only by the mournful aria of migrating whales or the acapella vocalizations of dolphin pods. In fact, the ...

As more research shows how noise pollution can have severely harmful impacts on our health, there is a growing movement looking for ways to make communities quieter and healthier. Noise - it's a part ...

Using more than 3.4 million citizen scientist observations of 140 different bird species across the continental U.S., researchers found that common bird species avoided areas with excessive noise. In ...

In a bid to tackle noise pollution, a serious yet often overlooked urban issue, Nick Ferenchak, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, has introduced a clever solution. Ferenchak has ...

Loud sounds may scare away animals that drop seeds. This is an Inside Science story. The effects of noise can reach organisms without ears. Because of the way living things rely on each other, noise ...

It may be no surprise that New York City is America's noisiest city. But one possible solution to decrease noise pollution may come as a surprise: introducing more park space in urban environments.

When Carnival Corp. ships sail into Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a protected area teeming with wildlife and striking landscapes, they go into quiet mode. The vessels don't make any ...

Who’d a thunk it? And when you have 50 or 100 people doing it, repeatedly, all at the same time, it becomes the kind of thing that can annoy even the most tolerant of neighbors. And so it goes with ...