Research shows that recordings from familiar, local forests can improve mood, focus, and reduce stress more than tropical forest soundscapes. Participants rated local sounds as more pleasant and ...

Listening to one-minute-long audio recordings of forest soundscapes has positive effects on people’s short-term wellbeing, new research finds. Improvements to wellbeing were found to be more ...

Scientists are to deploy a network of microphones in the Amazon rainforest to listen and measure the numbers and species of birds, insects and other wildlife. The use of ‘ecoacoustics’ forms part of ...