7 Jan 2018

Suffocated by noise pollution

From Up This Way, 8:50 am on 7 January 2018
little girl covers ears

Whether you're on a bus, turning up your music to drown out the rattling, or sitting in traffic next to honking cars and squealing breaks, there's a lot of sounds around.

A paper from Canadian scientists has been looking at the effect of these sounds on our hearing and so has kiwi expert Professor Kim Dirks from the University of Auckland...what's the issue here?