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 ...

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 ...

The best part of spring is the dawn chorus, the early morning torrent of birdsong that occurs during the nesting season. This is the clearest sign of the most dramatic natural event encountered by ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of birds are shifting their range in response to warmer temperatures. That means bird watchers are seeing new species in their yards. As winter loosens its cold grip on New England, morning bird ...

Light pollution makes birds work overtime. A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an ...