Listening to one-minute-long audio recordings of forest soundscapes has positive effects on people’s short-term wellbeing, ...

On a muggy June morning, Emily Bick winds through a field of knee-high corn, just north of Madison, Wisconsin. It feels like that quiet, anticipation-filled moment before a concert: Tech people are ...

When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...

Bird-watching—and, necessarily, listening—has exploded in popularity in recent years. But put your ears a little closer to the ground, and you might hear a quieter but just as potent kind of song ...

For many, an insect chorus is the sound of summer. But many Morning Edition listeners wrote in to say they needed help identifying the bugs making the sounds. MONTAGNE: Perhaps surprisingly, most of ...

Back in the Midwest, in the summers I listened to cicadas calling and crickets chirping — sounds that don’t happen here in Southeast Alaska. We hear mosquitoes and bees buzzing, of course, but that’s ...

Listen closely. A cooing or murmuring sound is interspersed with one that sonically resembles Velcro separating. Another is similar to ticking tones that resonate and subside at random intervals.

As the weather warms an evening chorus of animals and insects emerge, most of which are seeking love while running the risk of becoming entangled in a deadly web from those seeking prey. A chorus of ...