For the little ones in Italy, the nap time is something that feels like a hug from nature. A video from a kindergarten in the ...

Teenager Ella Coonen is rapidly losing her hearing. "The Sound of a Bucket List" is documenting her effort to hear great ...

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 ...

Every city has a distinctive sound—a blend of street traffic and distant sirens, rustling leaves and urban wildlife. But for years, the soundscapes at intersections across America shared something ...

Perseverance is the key to success, especially if you have the right tools and the gumption of innocence. At the time of my first lesson in a “stick-to-the goal” adventure, I was a teenager living in ...

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March. The ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...