Noise Pollution
Every year since 1973, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has conducted a survey to find out what city residents dislike about their environment. And every year the...
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Noise Pollution
Noise pollution is the intrusion of unwanted, uncontrollable, and unpredictable sounds, not necessarily loud, into the lives of individuals of reasonable sensitivities. Using the �...
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Dave Legeret silently fumed as the man seated beside him on the plane blasted techno music on his iPod at full volume."It was kind of rude," recalled Legeret, 38, a jewelry designer from Sandy Hook...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport is
distributing sleeping pills to neighbouring residents in an effort to
lull growing complaints about noise pol...
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Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind.Because hybrids make virtually no no...
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Thousands of residents near an air base used by Japanese and U.S. forces have sued the Japanese government to seek compensation for noise pollution caused by fighter jets, a court official said Tue...
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A U.S. official in Okinawa Prefecture said Wednesday he
recognizes the need to move a proposed airfield in Nago further
offshore than currently planned but ruled out the possibility of
revis...
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Abe tells Cabinet to be vigilant, act with 'strict neutrality'
TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday urged his Cabinet
ministers to be ''vigilant'' and carry out their dut...
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Yellowstone National Park officials want to reduce the number of snowmobiles allowed each day in the park as part of its winter management plan, said a congressional aide briefed on the plan.The pa...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - Filming of the latest Batman film in Hong Kong
suffered its latest hitch when crowds flocking to see their hero
threatened to disrupt filming, news reports...
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The United States signaled its willingness Tuesday to give North Korea more time to act on a February nuclear disarmament pledge but said the world's patience would not be endless.Secretary of Stat...
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New York (dpa) - The conservation group Greenpeace has charged
pro-whaling Japan with endangering a democratic vote over the future
of the marine mammals by using financial ...
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Noise Pollution
Noise Pollution
iPod noise pollution irks those nearby
