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Topic: Noise Pollution

USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

The rising onslaught of noise

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
A Person covering their ears with a pillow, who cannot sleep due to noise (Getty Images/choi dongsu)

Why gadgets scramble your sleep

Matthew Rozsa
An angry fish (Getty Images)

Fish would like you to shut up, please

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Noise pollution worse in poor 'hoods

Joan A. Casey, Peter James, Rachel Morello-Frosch - The Conversation
(<a href='url to photographer'>Lorcel</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The quietest places in the US

Joanna Rothkopf
(Olivier Pascaud/Airbus)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-491101p1.html'>Dmitriy Sudzerovskiy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

This beep is driving me insane

Lawrence Shainberg