Readers ask about noise pollution and beluga melons

Sounds for illustration trouble

Exposing zebra finch eggs and hatchlings to postulation sound tin lead to lifelong reductions successful wellness and reproduction, Jonathan Lambert reported successful “Traffic sound harms vertebrate eggs” (SN: 6/1/24, p. 9).

Reader Gary Wilson asked really sound contamination affects humans.

Noise contamination tin harm humans’ beingness and intelligence health. Prolonged vulnerability to communal large noises, specified arsenic building and powered section mowers, tin induce proceeding harm and loss. The cacophony of mundane proscription and postulation wrong cities tin summation stress, disrupt slumber and hormone levels, impair cognition and up nan consequence for bosom disease, bosom nonaccomplishment and stroke.