Rachel Carson’s landmark 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring was an investigation of the environmental harm caused by the use of the synthetic pesticide DDT. The book took its title from the ...

The beautiful melody of birds early in the morning is the best thing to hear. But do all birds sing in the morning? And why do they do so? Are their songs the same for all the seasons? Do all birds ...

I usually write answers to kids’ science questions early in the morning. I like how it’s so quiet – except for my bird neighbors singing and singing. I asked my friend Jennifer Phillips what’s going ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ...

When the world is quiet and the sun has just begun to rise as birds fill the air with songs. It is one of the most peaceful and beautiful moments in nature but if you have ever wondered why birds sing ...

The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...

By the time light appears, birds are primed to move and vocalize. Singing becomes their way of stretching after hours of stillness. Why The Noise Gets So Intense In another experiment, scientists ...