Harmful levels of road traffic noise affect one in four people in Europe and raise health risks ranging from sleepless nights to heart disease, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has stated.according to Reuters news service. More than 900,000 cases of hypertension can be traced to noise.
In EEA’s first assessment of the impact of noise pollution in Europe, it reported that high volumes undermine children’s concentration in some schools and disrupts nature, for example by drowning out the songs birds use to attract mates.