The Effect of Noise Pollution

The result of noise existence from sources above is being bothersome on human lives as well as the whole environment. Noise can result in damage to human health and well-being in a number of ways including annoyance reaction, sleep disturbance, interference with communication, performance effects, effect on social behavior and decrease in hearing ability. For instance, research into the effect of noise on human health indicates a variety of heath effect. People experiencing high noise levels, especially around airports or along road/rail corridors, differ from those with less noise exposure. Related to the survey of scientific with fairly consistent evidence that prolonged exposure to noise levels at or about 80 decibels can cause deafness to the people who live in those places were polluted by the noise. The amount of deafness depends up on the degree of exposure. Additionally, exposure to noise is also associated with a range of mental health effects. Those noises can cause annoyance and frustration consequence of interference, interruption and distraction that can lead to irritability, stress, fatigue and other symptoms. Apart from being disturbance on human, noise also pollutes the environment. It can have a detrimental effect on animals by causing stress, in creasing risk of mortality by changing the delicate balance in prey detection and avoidance by interfering with their use of sound in communication especially in relation to reproduction and in navigation. Scientifics consider that the animals can have stress like the human through influence of the loud voice to make them run away from noisy place for sometimes.

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