Recently, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Annual Frontier Report 2022.
It is titled Noise, Blazes, and Mismatches: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern.
In the new report, UNEP has said that wildfires, noise pollution, and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed.
The report highlights the urgent need to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Noise pollution has been termed as “a raucous killer” .
The report has highlighted that between 2002 and 2016, an average of 423 million hectares of the land surface have burned due to wildfires.