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For an interesting and lively look at how noise impacts our health, you can listen to last weeks' edition of BBC Radio 4's Inside Health on BBC Sounds.
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For an interesting and lively look at how noise impacts our health, you can listen to last weeks' edition of BBC Radio 4's Inside Health on BBC Sounds. The programme features 80dB baby cries, with Professor Charlotte Clark looking at how noise impacts our body using the Arup sound laboratory. Also Professor Bill Davies, soundscape researcher at Salford University, discusses the noise sources around us and our preferences for different types of sound - including the impacts of natural sounds. You can listen in on BBC Sounds
Preventing the harmful effects of noise from human activity on biodiversity is the topic of a new briefing
Sound Unleashed challenges young people to share their ideas on sound — with £1,000 prizes up for grabs.
Note that the Institute's Milton Keynes office will be closed today, Friday, 27 Feb., due to unexpected internet connectivity issues. We expect to reopen again on Monday. Staff are working from home.
The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) is now accepting entries for its annual primary school competition.
A report commissioned by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy to look at assessment of noise from onshore wind farms is now published.
The Welsh Government are consulting on changes to permitted development rights including air source heat pumps(ASHP).
As part of their ongoing enquiry into the impact of airport expansion on climate and nature targets, the Environmental Audit Committee will be taking oral evidence tomorrow - Wednesday May 14th.
The Government are seeking views on proposals for changes to the planning process for national infrastructure projects.
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