Simply put: Allahabad HC bans DJ in UP

Noise pollution violations: New fines proposed by CPCB step in right direction

New set of fines range between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1 lakh; cover confiscation of noise producing equipment

After ‘bias’ row, Bombay HC judge brought back to hear noise pollution case

Maharashtra government faced flak for accusing Justice Oka of bias and trying to transfer the case to a different bench

Haryana has gone deaf

How silent are silence zones in India?

A study monitored 17 silence zones in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Lucknow and found that none of them came anywhere …

Not just air, level of noise pollution in Delhi is also deadly: study

A new study confirms the findings of a 2011 CSE survey which had shown that the capital has the noisiest roads in the country

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The conductor's bane

A hush-hush affair

Noise control

Loudspeakers silenced

Unsound ways

ट्रैफिक के शोर से पक्षी छोड़ रहे हैं गाना-चहचहाना, प्रजनन पर भी पड़ा असर: अध्ययन

जर्मनी के शोधार्थियों ने म्युनिख शहर के शोर भरे इलाके और शांत इलाके में अलग-अलग रह रहे जेबरा फिंच पक्षी पर शोध किया और कई ...

Fatal flight

For the Dutch, one more runway at Schiphol may mean more business and jobs, but pollution could go over the top

Noise enfolded

Muffling the sound made by a supersonic jet during take-off could bring calm to areas where air traffic is high

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 5, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Lagos takes action against violators to tackle noise pollution

State environmental agency LASEPA has shut 40 religious houses, industries and night clubs for contravening guidelines on pollution

Law made tough for noise makers

Will authorities enforce the rules?  

इंसानी शोर से खतरे में है जीव-जंतुओं का अस्तित्व: स्टडी

क्वीन्स यूनिवर्सिटी, बेलफास्ट के शोधकर्ताओं के अनुसार मानव द्वारा किया जा रहा ध्वनि प्रदूषण जीवों की 100 से भी अधिक प्रजातियों के अस्तित्व के ...

Noise pollution forces patients to check out of hospitals: study

Noise levels in intensive care units have been found to be as high as that generated by loud music coming through headphones

All in the mind

Noise over weapons blowup

Dynamics of noise

Researchers in the University of Wales are collaborating with European partners to improve the computer models which predict how a new …

Noisy airport

Sound vision

Computer simulations to map noise pollution