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Noise Pollution

Noise pollution refers to unwanted and disruptive sounds created by human activities such as construction, transportation, and industrial or urban development that negatively impact human and animal health and life. Sources of noise pollution include vehicles, aircraft, machinery, alarms, loud people, and amplified sounds. Exposure to excessive noise can cause annoyance, stress, high blood pressure, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other health issues in humans as well as stress, communication interference, and habitat loss in animals. In some cases, very loud noises like military sonar have even led directly to the death of some whale species.

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Noise Pollution

Noise pollution refers to unwanted and disruptive sounds created by human activities such as construction, transportation, and industrial or urban development that negatively impact human and animal health and life. Sources of noise pollution include vehicles, aircraft, machinery, alarms, loud people, and amplified sounds. Exposure to excessive noise can cause annoyance, stress, high blood pressure, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other health issues in humans as well as stress, communication interference, and habitat loss in animals. In some cases, very loud noises like military sonar have even led directly to the death of some whale species.

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:::NOISE POLLUTION:::

Noise pollution (or environmental noise) is displeasing human, animal or machine-created sound that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life. The word noise comes from the Latin word nauseas, meaning seasickness. The source of most outdoor noise worldwide is mainly construction and transportation systems, including motor vehicle noise, aircraft noise and rail noise. Poor urban planning may give rise to noise pollution, since side-by-side industrial and residential buildings can result in noise pollution in the residential area.

Indoor and outdoor noise pollution sources include car alarms, emergency service sirens, mechanical equipment, fireworks, compressed air horns, groundskeeping equipment, barking dogs, appliances, lighting hum, audio entertainment systems, electric megaphones, and loud people.

Noise health effects are both health and behavioral in nature.[citation needed] The unwanted sound is called noise. This unwanted sound can damage physiological and psychological health. Noise pollution can cause annoyance and aggression, hypertension, high stress levels, tinnitus, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other harmful effects. Furthermore, stress and hypertension are the leading causes to health problems, whereas tinnitus can lead to forgetfulness, severe depression and at times panic attacks. Noise can have a detrimental effect on animals by causing stress, increasing risk of death by changing the delicate balance in predator/prey detection and avoidance, and by interfering with their use of sounds in communication especially in relation to reproduction and in navigation. Acoustic overexposure can lead to temporary or permanent loss of hearing. An impact of noise on animal life is the reduction of usable habitat that noisy areas may cause, which in the case of

endangered species may be part of the path to extinction. Noise pollution has caused the death of certain species of whales that beached themselves after being exposed to the loud sound of military sonar

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