Remember those “slow TV” videos of trains gliding through the Norwegian countryside? If you’ve ever wanted some sort of audio ...

Immerse yourself in the peaceful atmosphere of a quiet forest, where only the natural sounds of wildlife, rustling leaves, ...

Recording and analyzing forest soundscapes can be an effective way of monitoring changes in animal communities in tropical forests and human presence, researchers say in a new commentary published in ...

“As conservationists, we need to restore ecosystems and reestablish the natural processes that keep the natural world in ...

The deep rainforest is a symphony. In the rainforests of Indonesia, New Guinea, and other wild lands, scientists strapped microphones to trees and recorded the boisterous howls, grumbles, and shrieks ...

The hours of recordings, now available to the public, can be used to monitor species and detect elephant poachers. Fifty microphones captured a cacophony of sounds from Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National ...

Monica Retamosa was in the middle of changing the batteries of a tape recorder when she heard a bellbird for the first time. Standing on a forest floor, she looked up into the trees, scanning for the ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

When sensory ecologist Megan Gall joined the faculty at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2013, an experiment presented itself. A number of researchers at Vassar were studying browsing ...

Hungry deer in the northeastern U. S. are likely changing the acoustics of their forests by eating up bushes, small trees and other leafy plants that normally would affect the transmission of natural ...