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Study Explains How Traffic Noise, Pollution Are Linked To Infertility
Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide. And with more than half the worlds population now living in urban areas, researchers are interested in whether living in noisy and polluted cities could be to blame.
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Record-Breaking Christmas Lights Spark Discontent In New York Neighbourhood
Gay family's opulent Christmas displays, a tradition, irk neighbours with bright lights and traffic issues, sparking a neighbourhood dispute.
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Mumbai City To Observe 'No Honking Day' On June 14, In A Drive Against Noise Pollution
The Mumbai traffic police said it will observe 'No Honking Day' on June 14 and urged Mumbaikars to participate in the drive against unnecessary honking.
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British Airways Scrap 100 Flights To Cut Noise For Queen's Funeral
British Airways will scrap 100 flights from its London Heathrow base on Monday and re-time others as the airport, airlines and air traffic controllers work to minimize noise during Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.
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AMU BSc Student's 'Environmental Monitoring Device' Bags Young Scientists Award
The device will help in analysing in real time the simultaneous detection of vehicle flow and traffic concentrations at critical points, with air quality, particles and noise data.
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Shiv Sena Protests Against Mumbai Metro, City Development Body Over Pollution
Shiv Sena South Mumbai wing today protested against the MMRDA and some private builders for air and noise pollution and huge traffic snarls in south Mumbai's congested Thakurdwar region, marking a return to its aggressive style, party leaders said.
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Delhi Court Asks Cops To List Steps Taken To Reduce Noise From Vehicles
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the traffic police to inform it about the steps it proposes to take to remove pressure horns and modified silencers, which make thumping and backfiring sounds, from two wheelers, especially motorcycles.
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Long Exposure To Traffic Noise May Up Obesity Risk: 5 Diet Tips To Manage Obesity
Obesity is defined as a physical condition that involves excessive body fat.
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Fast And Furious Chennai? Supercars Worth 30 Crores Grounded After Race
Chennai woke up to a strange sight on Sunday morning: 10 imported cars - including a Ferrari, two Lamborghinis, a Mercedes and an Audi - standing in a row near the Kanathur police station in outer fringes of the city. The owners, mostly men under 30, were racing and have been arrested for rash and negligent driving, creating panic and causing noise...
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Traffic Noise Ups Heart Attack Risk
Living near the highway could cost your heart dear as researchers have found that risk of heart attack goes up with the amount of traffic noise to which you are exposed.
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Traffic Noise Ups Heart Attack Risk
Living near the highway could cost your heart dear as researchers have found that risk of heart attack goes up with the amount of traffic noise to which you are exposed.
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Nigeria's Solution To Noise Complaints? Shut Down Some Churches And Mosques.
The Nigerian city of Lagos is Africa's largest: The metropolitan area sprawls in every direction, and is thought to house more than 20 million people. Traffic jams can last for entire days, and with the megacity emerging as an epicenter of youth culture, the lines for the clubs can seem just as long.
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Mumbai Traffic Cops Want 30 pc Hike For breathing In Polluted Air
Most of us can't wait to get back indoors after braving the haze of soot and smoke hanging over Mumbai every day, but no one bears the brunt of this city's imploding pollution crisis more than the traffic police who are forced to spend hours doing their duty right in the middle of all the dust and din from the city's roads.
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Urban Noise Can Trigger Obesity, Heart Disease
Are you living in the vicinity of a busy highway or an airport or even a hospital? Constant noise emanating from heavy city traffic, industrial machinery, aeroplanes and loud music may leave one at a higher risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
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Connaught Place's Latest Entrant: White Waters
A magnificently heated jungle of concrete, garnished with buzzing traffic and a liberal dash of deafening noise served with generous amounts of air pollution which can leave snow white looking like yogi bear by the end of the day. That isn't exactly my...
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Study Explains How Traffic Noise, Pollution Are Linked To Infertility
Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide. And with more than half the worlds population now living in urban areas, researchers are interested in whether living in noisy and polluted cities could be to blame.
-
Record-Breaking Christmas Lights Spark Discontent In New York Neighbourhood
Gay family's opulent Christmas displays, a tradition, irk neighbours with bright lights and traffic issues, sparking a neighbourhood dispute.
-
Mumbai City To Observe 'No Honking Day' On June 14, In A Drive Against Noise Pollution
The Mumbai traffic police said it will observe 'No Honking Day' on June 14 and urged Mumbaikars to participate in the drive against unnecessary honking.
-
British Airways Scrap 100 Flights To Cut Noise For Queen's Funeral
British Airways will scrap 100 flights from its London Heathrow base on Monday and re-time others as the airport, airlines and air traffic controllers work to minimize noise during Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.
-
AMU BSc Student's 'Environmental Monitoring Device' Bags Young Scientists Award
The device will help in analysing in real time the simultaneous detection of vehicle flow and traffic concentrations at critical points, with air quality, particles and noise data.
-
Shiv Sena Protests Against Mumbai Metro, City Development Body Over Pollution
Shiv Sena South Mumbai wing today protested against the MMRDA and some private builders for air and noise pollution and huge traffic snarls in south Mumbai's congested Thakurdwar region, marking a return to its aggressive style, party leaders said.
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Delhi Court Asks Cops To List Steps Taken To Reduce Noise From Vehicles
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the traffic police to inform it about the steps it proposes to take to remove pressure horns and modified silencers, which make thumping and backfiring sounds, from two wheelers, especially motorcycles.
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Long Exposure To Traffic Noise May Up Obesity Risk: 5 Diet Tips To Manage Obesity
Obesity is defined as a physical condition that involves excessive body fat.
-
Fast And Furious Chennai? Supercars Worth 30 Crores Grounded After Race
Chennai woke up to a strange sight on Sunday morning: 10 imported cars - including a Ferrari, two Lamborghinis, a Mercedes and an Audi - standing in a row near the Kanathur police station in outer fringes of the city. The owners, mostly men under 30, were racing and have been arrested for rash and negligent driving, creating panic and causing noise...
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Traffic Noise Ups Heart Attack Risk
Living near the highway could cost your heart dear as researchers have found that risk of heart attack goes up with the amount of traffic noise to which you are exposed.
-
Traffic Noise Ups Heart Attack Risk
Living near the highway could cost your heart dear as researchers have found that risk of heart attack goes up with the amount of traffic noise to which you are exposed.
-
Nigeria's Solution To Noise Complaints? Shut Down Some Churches And Mosques.
The Nigerian city of Lagos is Africa's largest: The metropolitan area sprawls in every direction, and is thought to house more than 20 million people. Traffic jams can last for entire days, and with the megacity emerging as an epicenter of youth culture, the lines for the clubs can seem just as long.
-
Mumbai Traffic Cops Want 30 pc Hike For breathing In Polluted Air
Most of us can't wait to get back indoors after braving the haze of soot and smoke hanging over Mumbai every day, but no one bears the brunt of this city's imploding pollution crisis more than the traffic police who are forced to spend hours doing their duty right in the middle of all the dust and din from the city's roads.
-
Urban Noise Can Trigger Obesity, Heart Disease
Are you living in the vicinity of a busy highway or an airport or even a hospital? Constant noise emanating from heavy city traffic, industrial machinery, aeroplanes and loud music may leave one at a higher risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
-
Connaught Place's Latest Entrant: White Waters
A magnificently heated jungle of concrete, garnished with buzzing traffic and a liberal dash of deafening noise served with generous amounts of air pollution which can leave snow white looking like yogi bear by the end of the day. That isn't exactly my...
