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Noise Pollution: The hidden costs

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Measurement of Noise Pollution

An acoustic cologist and conservation biologist at colorado state university has been working with the national park service to predict levels of noise pollution across the united states. Decibles give a measurement of the pressure variations in the air. A three decible increase in sound energy above natural would be a doubling of sound energy.

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