The rugged, diverse landscape of Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia, is a global hotspot of biodiversity, including fantastic creatures such as birds of paradise, echidnas and cuscuses. It is ...

Kim Bostwick loves slow-motion instant replay. Not because she’s a huge sports fan, but because special high-speed video cameras have allowed her to solve a long-standing mystery: how unusual ...

Calais is changing fast. A year ago, the Jungle camp on the town’s outskirts was a bustling makeshift village packed with migrants and refugees. Today, where tents and shelters once stood, only ...

Tuk tuk, click click,” environment journalist Kartik Chandramouli talks in a Morse code-ish tongue these days. While ...

In the United States, you’re rarely far from a road. And as you get closer to one, or other bits of human infrastructure, bird populations decline. But are the birds avoiding our cars or the noises ...

Scientists show that squirrels have one ear tuned to the chatter of birds, and act on what they learn from eavesdropping. By James Gorman It will come as no surprise to squirrel lovers — and haters, ...

The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...

Bird sounds at the crack of dawn are not part of everyone’s morning. If you live in a city, there’s a good chance that bird populations have migrated elsewhere, as they struggled to compete with urban ...