We often see images depicting wilderness landscapes, but what do those places sound like? Among the hours and days of remote sound recordings they’ve collected in Alaska’s Arrigetch Basin, researchers ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an audio and video creator at The Verge since 2015. Pristine soundscapes are so important that the National ...

When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them. But when we habitually ignore ...

Human-produced noise doubles the background sound levels in 63 percent of protected areas, and raises it tenfold in 21 percent of such landscapes. Rachel Buxton, a conservation biologist at Colorado ...

Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...

A few months ago, I had dinner at the home of ecologist David Haskell. As we were transitioning toward dessert, he asked me, “Would you like to see my mammoth flute?” Haskell has a slightly awkward ...