PITTSFIELD — A city resident is suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force it to crack down on harmful noise pollution that she says the EPA neglected to regulate for more than four decades.

University of Michigan study finds noise harms birds' health in many ways, including their ability to reproduce ...

Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses, while run-off from industries has not only diminished ...

Noise pollution affects approximately 30 million workers in the United States. Here's why its detrimental health effects deserve your attention. Several months ago, I awoke at midnight to the grating ...

Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...

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 most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And ...

Pam Parfitt, a member of the Santa Fe Mayor’s Committee on Disability, is working to inform the public about the harmful effects of noise pollution, a problem that is more widespread than most people ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers examined the impact of prenatal and early life exposure to noise and air pollution on mental health outcomes, specifically depression, ...