For urban residents, indoor noise pollution is a serious health risk. Discover how wall soundproofing reduces noise exposure ...

A growing body of research makes it clear that noise pollution can have severely harmful impacts on our health. It has been tied to heart disease and thousands of premature deaths around the world.

At the height of the Great Depression, when home foreclosures in the United States soared to 1,000 per day, the federal government adopted programs to keep people in their homes and make mortgages ...

Prolonged exposure to loud noises can have serious health effects. But one researcher is skeptical about surveillance as a solution. Erica Walker is an epidemiologist at Brown University, where she ...

It does not matter what season it is, the relative quiet of Presque Isle State Park is wonderful. As you walk, bike, run, swim, birdwatch, skateboard or sit at a picnic table and read, you are away ...

Residents of the area around Schiphol, a densely populated zone, have regularly complained about the airport's noise nuisance - Copyright ANP/AFP ARTHUR VAN DER KOOIJ ...

Q: When we first moved into our apartment building on a big intersection, the noise didn’t bother me. But lately, every honk or passing truck makes me nuts. What can I do? — Min-shu L., Queens, N.Y. A ...