Observatories located on mountain tops, like Paranal, can get quite windy. This sound broadcasts the wind during a quiet night with normal wind conditions, recording the waving leaves of a bunch of ...

An international group of researchers collected one hundred years' worth of sounds from around the world to investigate how soundscapes differ between urban and natural environments. They also ...

How citizen science is helping us hear lost soundscapes. As our environments change, so too do the sounds they make — and this change in soundscape can affect us in a whole host of ways, from our ...

Amid the footsteps of dinosaurs and the rustle of ferns in the wind, the soundscape of Jurassic forests would have been filled with the musical chirps of cricket-like insects—and some of those calls ...

The sounds you hear around you make up the soundscape, an acoustic background that persists throughout your everyday life. Soundscapes also exist in the ocean. As human noise contributions, such as ...

The dull roar of traffic, the barking of dogs in backyards and the screeching of cockatoos at dusk. The shattering of early morning quiet by the first plane overhead or the garbage truck on its rounds ...

Imagine you’re walking across rolling hills that stretch for miles, with warm sunshine and the chirping of birds all around. This peaceful and serene scene is an increasingly rare one in the modern ...

Imagine going to hear your favourite orchestral piece played in a world-class venue – and only the woodwind and brass sections turning up. Whether we’re aware of it or not, this sparse soundscape is ...