Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noise pollution is nothing new, especially if you live in cities or near industrial areas, but its effects may go far beyond basic ...

If you live near a busy street, this new breakthrough from Switzerland could offer some long-awaited relief. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) ...

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 ...

New research by Thomas Münzel, MD, senior professor of cardiology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Mainz, Germany, and colleagues again emphasized the harmful effects of noise on the heart ...

Music and traffic noise both changed how people imagined a simple journey, but they did so differently: music boosted ...

If you live near a busy road you might feel like the constant sound of roaring engines, honking horns and wailing sirens makes your blood pressure rise. Now a new study confirms it can do exactly that ...

Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide. And with more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, researchers are interested in whether living in noisy and ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Nevada Department of Transportation is upgrading sound walls along Interstate 11 to reduce traffic noise for residents living near the busy freeway. The project that started ...

A new study suggests that traffic noise at schools has a detrimental effect on the development of working memory and attention in primary-school students. Road traffic noise is a widespread problem in ...