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A great tit (Parus major)

AI uncovers how birds remix their songs over time

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2025
A mangrove pitta

How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2025

Leopards’ unique ‘sawing’ sounds could aid conservation efforts

Dann Okoth 30 Jan 2025
Weddell seals live in Antarctica. They communicate via chirps and trills. Image credit: ELG21 from Pixabay

Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in art-science collaboration

Jasmin Galvan 6 Dec 2024
An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Oct 2024
A dragonfly perched on a leaf in Thailand.

Reimagining insect research: Interview with Roel van Klink and Leandro Nascimento

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jun 2024

Bioacoustics and AI help scientists listen in on elusive Australian cockatoos

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Apr 2024
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 Apr 2024
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023
Eastern bluebirds

With fewer birds seen on farms, scientists try listening for them

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Sep 2023
A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 2023
A squirrel and a bird share a bird feeder.

Bioacoustics in your backyard: Q&A with conservation technologist Topher White

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Mar 2023
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 2023

To save the Amazon, scientists are listening to its rich sounds

Sibélia Zanon 27 Oct 2022
A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022

Hear that? Bioacoustics is having its moment, but the technology still needs tuning

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Aug 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022
Humpback whales have made a remarkable recovery from the days when they were targeted by whaling vessels, but global whale populations are starting to struggle as food resources shift and deteriorate.

What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 May 2022

The ocean is a cacophony of fish talk, study shows. We just can’t hear it

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 30 Mar 2022
Zuzana Burivalova. Photo credit: Tobias Corts

Bioacoustics researcher wins top award for positive impact toward solving global challenges

Erik Hoffner 2 Dec 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation

Erik Hoffner 10 Jun 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, it’s the birds that don’t make a sound, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Mar 2021

Male superb lyrebirds found to trick females into mating via masterful mimicry

Romi Castagnino 5 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021

Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2021

Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021

Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020

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