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Study: Noise Pollution Has Adverse Effect on Reading
Mother Talkers —
Authority: 142
Ashley Merryman over at Newsweek covered a fascinating study of school children living in a high rise apartment above a New York City interstate highway. What researchers found was that the children living in the lower levels of the apartment building had lower reading scores than children living in the upper ...1 day ago -
‘TaxiBot’ causes zero fuel emission and zero noise pollution
Greenlaunches.com —
Authority: 141
Airplanes consume the maximum energy and so the fuel emission from the planes is also the maximum. Taxing to and from the airport terminal gate and runway is a major source of CO2 emissions. Ricardo has engineered a unique arrangement that allows the airplanes to turn off their main engine while taxing to and away ...2 days ago -
Humans as Sensors: Using Mobile Phones to Map a City’s Noise Levels
MobileBehavior —
Authority: 125
Mobile crowdsourcing is being used to construct traffic maps and forecast crowd flow , now it is also beginning to map noise levels within cities around the world. NoiseTube provides a mobile application that lets users capture the surrounding ambiance through a built-in microphone, and if the phone supports it, ...5 days ago -
Cellphones to fight sound pollution through ‘Noise Tube’
Thaindian News —
Authority: 719
London, November 19 (ANI): Cellphones could soon be used to fight noise pollution, with a downloadable software called NoiseTube using people’s smartphones to monitor noise pollution.According to a report in New Scientist, the software has been developed by Nicolas Maisonneuve’s team from the Sony Computer Science ...6 days ago -
What is Noise Pollution?
EbioAnt —
Authority: 144
By Barry Lycka The world is plagued with various sorts and types of pollution. The most rampant ones are air and water pollution. Air pollution makes it very hard for people to breathe clean fresh air. It is brought about the huge industrialization projects in most countries. Large factories produce some that make ...1 week ago -
#6 Groningen, Netherlands: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour
EcoWorldly —
Authority: 572
Groningen would be number one on this list if we were looking at percentage of residents who bicycle for transportation purposes. About 57% of travel in Groningen is by bicycle! The city has been named the world’s best bicycle city a couple of times ( 1993 and 2006 ). It is a university city which is part of ...3 weeks ago -
Whale Songs Drowned Out by Human Noise Pollution
Mendo Coast Current —
Authority: 120
Endangered species’ communication critical to survivalARIEL DAVID, Seattle Post Intelligence, December 8, 2008The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world’s oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said ...3 weeks ago -
Leaf blowers, again
Over the line, Smokey! —
Authority: 107
Yesterday, while riding my bike, I saw two people dealing with fall leaves. The first was a middle aged man in Mountain View, blowing madly away at leaves in his driveway, blowing them out into the street with a noisy gasoline-driven blower. I suppose then the neighbors will blow them back the next day. The second ...4 weeks ago -
Noise Pollution Forcing Blue Whales to Cope & Compete
Mendo Coast Current —
Authority: 120
MendoCoastCurrent, October 27, 2009Editor’s Note: Over the past few weeks there have been numerous Blue Whales showing up dead on the coast of California and a cause of the recent Blue Whale washing up on the Mendocino coast has been the topic of great discussion and mystery here. Actual cause of death has been ...4 weeks ago
