Noise pollution is caused by the unpleasent sound created by human, animal or machine, that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life. The displeasing sound can damage physiological and psychological health. Sound pollution can cause annoyance and aggression, high stress levels, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other harmful effects. Which in turn stress and hypertension leads to health problems. Tinnitus can lead to forgetfulness, severe depression and at time panic attacks.
Animals can also have detrimental effect by noise which can cause stress, increasing risk of death by changing the delicate balance in pridator/prey detection and avoidance, and by interfering with their use of sounds in communication especially in relation to reproduction and in navigation. Animals can suffer from temporary or permanent loss of hearing due to acoustic
overexposure.
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