Many parents know that loud noise can hurt a child’s hearing. Very loud sounds—from fireworks or firearms, for example—can cause immediate damage. Using personal listening devices for music, videos ...

The sick, elderly, and young are particularly sensitive. Numerous studies have shown that excessive anthropogenic noise – ...

Chronic exposure to unwanted aircraft, traffic and construction noise may harm psychological and cardiovascular health. (Getty Images) If you live in a city, near a highway or within several miles of ...

We all intuitively know that too much noise is bad. We can tell when we’ve been blasting our earbuds a little too much, maybe experienced a post-rock concert headache. But a recent analysis from the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARLSBAD, Calif. (FOX5/KUSI) – Some ...

Exposure to air and noise pollution early in life may be linked to several common mental health problems in adolescence and early adulthood, according to a longitudinal birth cohort study. Similarly, ...

If you live in a city, near a highway or within several miles of an airport, you’re probably accustomed to the sounds of sirens blaring, semitrucks rolling by or planes soaring overhead. This ...