The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if you were a tiny seed planted directly below a free-falling droplet. Would ...
Forests are far more than green landscapes. Scientists now have stronger evidence showing that trees release huge amounts of ...
The Amazon Rainforest plays a critical role in global climate health, but accelerating deforestation continues to raise alarm. How are the region’s governments responding? Between 17 and 20 percent of ...
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More than a million hours of sound recordings are available from the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—a ...
It’s a well-established fact that forests and water are deeply connected. For decades, paired-watershed experiments — a scientific method for evaluating land-use impacts on water quantity or quality — ...
The hours of recordings, now available to the public, can be used to monitor species and detect elephant poachers. Fifty microphones captured a cacophony of sounds from Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National ...
The Elephant Listening Project records sounds across the forests of the Congo, and has begun making these recordings public. Where on Earth is more wondrous and invigorating than the rainforest? Many ...
It’s late at night and I’m lying absolutely still. The hot air is so humid that sweat stings my eyes. All is dark. Cocooned behind insect netting in a cabin, I’m immersed in the forest’s sounds. The ...