Protected Areas Get Short Shrift

National Park Service researchers recorded ambient sound from all over the country to find out where there’s still stillness. David Biello reports 

Life thrives even deep inside Earth and scientists are beginning to suspect extensive connections among those underground environments. David Biello reports 

The long-term winter warming of Russia’s far north has gotten a boost from industrialization. David Biello reports 

Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years. A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health. In this guest episode, the te ... Show More

A tech reporter on a hunt to defeat her insomnia discovers a larger contradiction fueling the multibillion dollar sleep industry. Can products really solve a problem that modernity has partially caused? Special thanks to guests Charlotte Jee and Ben Reiss, author of Wild Nights. ... Show More

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a Loch in the Scottish Highlands to the evergreen forests of Thailand via South Africa and a tiny Gloucestershire village.With field recordings by Hugh Manistree, Grace Niska Atkins, Christopher Hammond and Dave Reid. 

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Scottish border, to a remote island in the Cyclades, via Northumbrian moorlands and the Ribble Valley.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Heather Wright and Tom and Jan Perrett. 

Rats kept awake after exploring novel objects remembered the original items but not where they’d seen those objects, raising interesting questions about human sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg ... Show More

A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ An alternative narration by Jason Hill ... Show More

The sounds of the cosmos revealed through the sonification of astronomical data. 

A listener needs help opening his Velcro bag quietly, so we call in the military. 

On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions or technological glitch, the absence of sound sometimes affects us more profoundly than the audible. We begin with author John Bigu ... Show More