The chirping and calls of birds in the canopy above might be exactly what allows you to relax. But what sounds soothing to ...

Listening to one-minute-long audio recordings of forest soundscapes has positive effects on people’s short-term wellbeing, new research finds. Improvements to wellbeing were found to be more ...

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls ...

Get in real close touch with nature. On a hike through one of the sprawling forests in Estonia, a country more than half covered in trees, you might stumble on three giant megaphones in the middle of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...