Color and texture punctuate sound in Andy Thomas' mind. Thomas, a mixed-media artist living in Melbourne, Australia, doesn't actually have synesthesia, a condition in which one sense stimulates ...

An unprecedented study is analyzing biodiversity by listening to nearly 16,000 minutes of recordings made in Carajás National Forest, a protected region in the Brazilian Amazon. Some 230 bird species ...

Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer. As a city kid, many people find it hard to believe that I love nature. I guess it’s ...

Researchers working in the Amazon recently recorded the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, and it sounds like a klaxon you’d hear aboard a spaceship during battle. And while the white ...