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 ...

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 ...

African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis) Dominic Sherony/Wikimedia Commons. Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...

Countless thousands of leaves keep the secrets of birds in a forest. In the woods creeping in on my house from all sides, I have only one weapon to neutralize all that deep shade: sharp hearing I’m ...