Mon Oct 21 2024
The aviation sector needs to work fast to address its impact on the environment. A small conference in Bristol brought together technologists, climate scientists, policy makers and...
Wed Sep 25 2024
Individuals exposed to higher levels of aircraft noise experienced objectively higher levels of sleep disturbance and changes in sleep–wake cycle.
Mon Sep 16 2024
The different timescales of CO2 and contrail cirrus radiative forcing and temperature response cause different behaviours in CO2-equivalence metrics.
Thu Sep 12 2024
We found a modest positive association between nighttime aircraft noise exposure and hypertension risk, which was stronger than the association with 24-h average aircraft noise.
Sat Aug 24 2024
Even with progress in lead poisoning prevention, research has consistently shown there is no safe blood lead level (BLL) for children...
Fri Aug 16 2024
Noise pollution has been shown to affect wild animals in various ways, but little is known about its consequences at the community level. Investigating...
Sat Aug 10 2024
Current trends in air transport are inconsistent with international climate goals.
Wed Aug 07 2024
Individuals’ sensitivity to climate hazards is a central component of their vulnerability to climate change. In this paper, we introduce and outline the utility of a new...
Tue Aug 06 2024
The elusive power dynamics behind the victimisation of aircraft noise pollution, a neglected type of invisible environmental harm, is the main concern of this study...
Tue Jul 02 2024
Long-distance passenger travel has received rather sparse attention for decarbonization. Here we characterize the long-distance travel pattern in England and explore its importance on carbon...
Fri Jun 28 2024
The findings suggest that traffic-related air pollution may be associated with the likelihood of needing help for lost independence among older...
Tue Jun 25 2024
A new study by green group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests that thousands of cases of high blood pressure, diabetes and dementia across Europe could be linked to the tiny...
Wed May 22 2024
In October 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final endangerment finding that leaded aviation gasoline (avgas) contributes to air pollution...
Wed May 08 2024
Aircraft noise exposure is linked to cardiovascular disease risk. One understudied candidate pathway is obesity. This study investigates the association between aircraft noise and obesity among female
Tue Apr 16 2024
For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from air travel for 197 countries covered by an international treaty...
Sat Mar 16 2024
Cruising emissions are largely unregulated and unmonitored. We show that air pollution is persistently elevated among populations beneath overhead flight routes across the world.
Mon Mar 11 2024
In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) is approved to predict the impacts of aircraft noise and emissions. AEDT's critical role in regulatory...
Fri Dec 15 2023
Sightseeing air tours have proven to be a challenging management issue for many tourist destinations around the world, especially at locations meant...
Tue Dec 05 2023
Noise, or unwanted sound exposure, is the second largest environmental cause of health problems, after air pollution, and has been associated with multiple adverse outcomes, such as...
Tue Oct 17 2023
Climate change is unequivocally recognized as one of the most pressing global challenges of our time. As the international community strives to implement...
Sun Oct 01 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in vestibular end organ function in a known at-risk noise-exposed population...
Thu Sep 28 2023
Noise exposure has been reported to exert numerous detrimental effects on the human population, although most research has centered...
Wed Aug 16 2023
The world is experiencing the impacts from 1.1 °C global warming above pre-industrial levels, and “as the climate continues to warm, the observed changes...
Thu Aug 10 2023
While states have accelerated the energy transition in some sectors, they have also obstructed fossil phase-out in other sectors. Aviation has an outsized and rapidly growing climate impact...
Mon Jul 10 2023
These findings in noise-exposed rats may have implications for people who experience noisy environments and for seniors with a history of noise exposure...
Thu Jun 29 2023
Noise can lead to damage to both auditory and vestibular functions
Fri Jun 09 2023
Clear-air turbulence (CAT) is hazardous to aircraft and is projected to intensify in response to future climate change. However, our understanding of past CAT trends is currently limited...
Fri Apr 14 2023
Sleep is an essential, natural process needed for healthy brain and general body functioning.1 Disruption of sleep can cause drowsiness and poor concentration and adversely affect the...
Tue Feb 28 2023
The research findings, across the differing GLS models, showed when accounting for spatial and time fixed-effects that the proximity to airports in New Zealand revealed a consistent...
Tue Dec 13 2022
Our findings showed that 70% of the workers exposed to occupational noise had vestibular alterations identified with electronystagmography, whereas 100% of the individuals in the...
Tue Nov 15 2022
Leaded fuel emissions exposed a global population of children to lead and its profound health consequences. Recognition of its harms precipitated a global phase out and...
Wed Sep 14 2022
Mobility reductions following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States were higher, and sustained longer, for aviation than ground transportation activity. We evaluate changes...
Mon Mar 07 2022
Considerable effort is expended to protect today’s children from lead exposure, but there is little evidence on the harms past lead exposures continue to hold for yesterday’s children...
Tue Feb 01 2022
Considering the double-log model, this study found that aviation noise has a statistically significant impact on house prices in the 60–64 dB and ≥65 dB zones. The rate of decline in house...
Thu Dec 30 2021
Regions typically take great pride in having an airport within their boundaries. Policymakers go through great lengths in maintaining and sustaining airports, small as some of them may be...
Wed Aug 11 2021
Commercial airport activity can adversely impact air quality in the vicinity of airports, and millions of people live close to major airports in the United States. Because of these potential...
Wed Jul 21 2021
It has been demonstrated that high-intensity noise exposure adversely affects the human balance function. The Tullio phenomenon (TP) refers to sound-induced imbalance...
Wed Jun 23 2021
Fuel efficiency of jet aircraft has been increasing right from the dawn of jet aviation in the late ’50 s and early ’60 s. This improvement cannot be attributed...
Sun Jun 20 2021
The focus of this paper is to find out the impact made by aircraft on the environment of Europe. In this paper, we will focus on how far aircraft are influencing and contaminating the environment.
Fri May 28 2021
Aircraft noise exposure is a health risk and there is evidence that noise annoyance partly mediates the association between noise exposure and stress-related health risks. Thus, approaches...
Tue May 18 2021
This study established that Entebbe International Airport experiences irregular noise frequencies with the midday having the highest noise intensities. Carbon dioxide was recorded at higher...
Wed Mar 03 2021
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of wearing HPAs in preventing vestibular loss caused by noise. Eighty-one workers exposed to chronic noise...
Wed Nov 25 2020
Impacts of noise pollution are recognized as a source of stress for animals and as a form of environmental degradation.
Fri Sep 18 2020
Exposure to loud noise in dental laboratories severely impacts the functioning of the vestibular system of the inner ear more than the cochlea. The main clinical implication of...
Sun May 31 2020
We have documented, in subjects chronically exposed to noise, the possibility of vestibular lesion, along with cochlear damage, related to chronic acoustic trauma.
Mon Apr 06 2020
Municipal airport owners and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regularly evaluate capacity and demand to decide if and when airports need more infrastructure. New infrastructure...
Mon Mar 23 2020
Our findings suggest that in the seven jurisdictions in our sample, EISs sometimes contain analyses that may not meet the standards of the related research field, and that they often lack...
Wed Feb 19 2020
These data suggest that noise overstimulation, such as can occur in the military, could introduce an increased risk of imbalance...
Tue Feb 04 2020
In this study, we built upon previous work, using the VsEP as a metric to evaluate the damaging effects of intense noise on the rat sacculus. The present study compared...
Tue Oct 01 2019
A previous study showed that people living in urban areas are generally exposed to low-frequency noise (LFN) with frequencies below 100 Hz and sound levels of 60-110 dB in daily...
Fri Sep 13 2019
The results show that after accounting for noise level and house characteristics, houses in noisier areas were sold for less than houses subjected to less noise.
Wed Aug 15 2018
Historically, aircraft have followed set flight patterns, similar to roadways for cars, guided primarily by radar and radio. With advancements in technology, automated flight systems like...
Tue Feb 13 2018
Clinical reports suggest a link between noise exposure and balance problems, but the structural and physiological basis for this linkage is not well understood. The goal of this study was...
Wed Apr 19 2017
Aviation activity accounted for up to a 10-fold increase TSP mass concentration. Elemental analysis showed that aircraft emissions are the dominant source of PM. Particle number concentrations...
Sat Apr 01 2017
Noise is defined as “unwanted sound.” Aircraft noise is one, if not the most detrimental environmental effect of aviation. It can cause community annoyance, disrupt sleep, adversely affect academic
Fri May 20 2016
These results suggest that noise exposure not only causes hearing loss, but also causes substantial damage in the peripheral vestibular system in the absence of immediate clinically...
Fri Jun 26 2015
Global increases in environmental noise levels – arising from expansion of human populations, transportation networks, and resource extraction – have catalysed a recent surge of...
Fri Apr 17 2015
Air pollutant emissions from aircraft have been subjected to less rigorous control than road traffic emissions, and the rapid growth of global aviation is a matter of concern in relation to human...
Mon Oct 20 2014
Airport operations cause an increase in ground-level pollution. Chemical and physical properties of the emitted gases and particles are reviewed.
Thu Oct 24 2013
We recommend that the cVEMPs evaluation should be done in the battery approach tests of the auditory function for normal populations. It can be a sign of the changes that are taking...
Sat Nov 10 2012
In conclusion, the decreasing order of abnormal percentages in the function of the cochlea, saccule, utricle and semicircular canals after chronic noise exposure further supports that...
Thu Aug 30 2012
These findings are consistent with previous studies that suggest that the sacculocollic pathway may be susceptible to noise-related damage. There is emerging evidence...
Fri Jun 29 2012
We are routinely exposed to low frequency noise (LFN; below 0.5 kHz) at moderate levels of 60–70 dB sound pressure level (SPL) generated from various sources in occupational and daily...
Sat Aug 08 2009
Sixty patients with varying degrees of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) after long-term exposure to intense impulse noise from firearms, but without manifest clinical symptoms of...
Mon Oct 20 2008
The saccule can exhibit temporary or permanent functional loss resembling hearing threshold shifts in guinea pigs following noise exposure. Recovery of VEMP precedes...
