How Much Noise Is In Your Neighborhood?

How Much Noise Is In Your Neighborhood?

This color-coded map shows the estimated median sound levels for areas of the 48 contiguous states of the U.S. The range goes from deep blue (low decibels) to brown (high decibels). The estimates were derived using a computer model that accounts for the factors...
How Much Noise Is In Your Neighborhood?

Botched Environmental Predictions For 2015

Decades ago, experts warned that many catastrophes would happen now – by the year 2015. Yet they have not. FoxNews.com found five predictions that went astray. 1) UN overestimated global warming by 2015 Two decades ago, the UN came up with several models that all...
How Much Noise Is In Your Neighborhood?

You May Not Be So Green After All

People who own all-electric cars may think they are helping the environment. But a new study finds that if their electrical power comes from coal, their vehicles actually make the air dirtier, worsening global warming. Ethanol isn’t so green, either....
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Coastal Warming ‘Due to Wind Not Humans’

The heating up of America’s west coast over the last century has been mostly caused by natural alterations in wind patterns rather than climate change brought about by humans, according to a new study. Between 1900 and 2012 temperatures have increased by about...
How Much Noise Is In Your Neighborhood?

Ice Cap Growing

Despite Al Gore’s prediction seven years ago that the polar ice cap would be completely melted by now, it is actually larger than it was in 2012, Mail Online reports. “The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,” Gore said in 2007 when he was...