Poets and philosophers often call winter the “quiet season,” when most songbirds have stopped singing and many creatures are asleep or dormant. Even so, nature resonates with distinct sounds during ...

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 ...

AMHERST, Mass. — Brian House, in long beard and muck boots, leads me through a pine forest on a cold afternoon until, on the edge of a marsh, we find it: an array of three circles formed by plastic ...

Have you ever listened to a recording of birdsong? Or ocean waves? The howling of wolves, or thunder and rain? If you have, did you ever wonder whether nature was getting any compensation for ...

British singer Ella Goulding participated in the Sounds Right campaign last year, as seen in this billboard in Leicester Square in London. We’re living in a world where the sounds of nature are often ...

In an innovative step to collect funds for the cause of nature conservation, the Museum for United Nations - UN Live - has launched Sounds Right. It is a new global initiative that aims at raising ...

In today’s fast-paced world, stress is almost unavoidable. Yet, one simple way to find calm lies in the natural symphony around us birds chirping, rivers flowing, or leaves rustling. Listening to ...

Forget the typical spa soundtracks, like rainstorms and crashing waves. The next time you want to relax, head to Spotify, look up key phrases like “birds in the forest,” and enjoy a cacophony of ...

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music. When the musician James Bishop hiked a section of the Pacific ...