You rush over to the laptop in your home office, drop into your seat, and tap into a Teams or Zoom meeting. Inevitably, that's the cue for the neighbor's landscaping crew to show up. On go the leaf ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For more than 100 million years, trees have dropped their leaves every fall, creating a protective layer of ...

GREENWICH — The low frequency and loud buzzing of gas-powered leaf blowers may be the reason why the town of Greenwich further restricts their use. The town currently restricts use to certain times of ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - From the city to the suburbs, the hum of leaf blowers is a familiar sound. But it's not the noise that has people up in arms-- it's their potential health hazard. They clear ...

No, not Moby Dick — whose soothing whale sounds are the stuff of New Age CDs. We're talking about that scourge of the suburbs, that bane of tranquility, the nightmare noise that householders dread ...