Switzerland is getting noisier, despite advances made in noise protection. It’s a challenge for EMPA – the main Swiss institute that conducts research to fight against the increasing noise levels produced by trains, planes and automobiles.
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EMPA, the institute for material sciences and technology development, carries out complex testing to help establish noise pollution guidelines. But it also works with industrial partners to develop noise-resistant materials. swissinfo visited the sound laboratories in Dübendorf to find out more. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)
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An estimated one in six Swiss residents is exposed to harmful levels of noise in their daily life, a rate in line with the European average. Progress has been made in noise reduction but it still remains one of the most serious and underestimated environmental problems of our age. Around 1.3 million of Switzerland’s…
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