Cicada songs can reach 90 decibels, which is as loud as a lawn mower. Here’s why cicada sounds can be so loud, and why they only emerge at certain times.

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

What’s that sound? Cicada season has arrived and here are the parts of the US that will be annoyed - This spring marks the ...

Certain sounds of nature are just unmistakable. A Carolina wren in the pre-dawn hours. Spring peepers on a warm April evening. Or an owl hooting late at night. The warmer days ahead are also ...

At night the cicada's wings are lit from below, turning them translucent. The sculpture will be accompanied by its soundscape, an audio recording of over 130 cicada calls from different species ...

Ear-splitting sound of summer: Cicada boom hits Sydney. Sydney’s summer soundtrack of cicadas has turned into a cacophony as loud as a jet taking off as the insects enjoy a boom year unseen in ...