excessive, displeasing human, animal, or machine-created environmental noise
Noise pollution is excessive, displeasing sound from human activities, animals, or machines in our environment. It matters because persistent unwanted noise can affect people's health, well-being, and quality of life.
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A Qantas Boeing 747-400 passes close to houses shortly before landing at London Heathrow Airport. Traffic is the main source of noise pollution in cities like São Paulo.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).