Noise in the News Archive

2012

• A rock hyrax—a rodent found in Africa and the Middle East—can wail, squeak, and tweet! (9/5/2012)
• Noisy Planet campaign to be featured on Jeopardy! (7/26/12)
• The NPR Cities Project wants to hear the sounds of your hometown (6/13/12)
• Tiny primates called tarsiers have mad ultrasonic skills (5/29/12)
• It's a "Noisy Planet," but it's also a "Noisy Sun" (5/22/12)
• Coldplay singer Chris Martin has tinnitus and some advice for kids (5/15/12)
• Where a bird lives affects how high its pitch is (5/8/2012)
• A phone call to Mom can have healing powers (5/2/2012)
• Whales may find ship noise stressful (3/26/12)
• Even a mouse can snore like a human (3/19/12)
• New technology is helping scientists recover some of the earliest audio recordings ever created (1/26/12)
• Female and male wrens sing as one (1/19/12)
• How are the sounds of your childhood different from the sounds your parents heard as children? (1/11/12)
• Students travel to the Grand Canyon to study sound and noise pollution (1/3/12)

2011

• Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count will sharpen your senses and help conservation researchers (12/19/11)
• Escala interactiva de ruidos: ¿Cuándo el ruido es demasiado ruido? (12/9/11)
• Hospital gives green light to noise awareness (11/14/11)
• A farm isn't always a quiet place. Learn how to protect your hearing on a farm (10/12/11)
• Noisy Planet is now on Facebook! (9/29/11)
• The new Noisy Planet interactive sound ruler: Sounds like fun! (9/7/11)
• Designs found in nature can inspire new products and solutions (8/17/11)
• What's all that buzzing you hear? It may be cicadas! (7/1/11)
• Humans can hear much higher pitched sounds underwater (6/17/11)
• Smokey may be the world's loudest cat (5/31/11)
• What's an acoustic biologist? Ask Katy Payne, who studies the language of elephants (5/6/11)
• Musicians in an orchestra may be exposed to unhealthy sound levels (3/9/11)
• Music has many roles (2/23/11)

2010

• Workers exposed to chemicals experience higher rates of hearing loss (12/15/10)
• The Noisy Planet website: It’s not just in English anymore! (11/15/10)
• Give your ears a break and your brain a boost (8/19/10)
• Boat noise may distract hermit crabs (7/28/10)
• House finches raise the pitch when it's noisy (7/27/10)
• World Cup soccer: Will stadium noise affect the matches? (6/9/10)
• Watch the volume of your MP3 player while you're in the gym (3/15/10)
• Hunting and other shooting sports can hurt your hearing (1/25/10)

2009

• It's toy season! It's concert season! Ho ho ho! (12/17/09)
• Hybrid cars are good for our environment, but are they too quiet? (11/20/09)
• Music affects your mood, but can it affect the mood of a monkey? (9/25/09)
• The top volume on your MP3 player can hurt your hearing (8/27/09)
• Noise from human activities may be hurting fish and other marine animals (5/4/09)
• What's your favorite sound? Hundreds of teens wrote about theirs for a recent essay contest (3/30/09)

2008

• Musicians are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss (9/21/08)
• Blue whales have been singing a lower tune (9/20/08)
• Restaurant noise is a top complaint of diners (9/16/08)