New research published in Health & Place suggests that engaging in outdoor activities—even alone—might actually protect us from feeling lonely.
Read moreNature Sounds
A recent study by scientists in Germany, Peru, and the United Kingdom explored the features of nature sounds that elicit mental well-being.
“We still don’t really know how the diversity and complexity of sounds affects how people feel, or why some sounds may be more uplifting than others,” explained study author Kevin Rozario, a graduate student at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research.
Read moreNature
This author goes back to Nature to seek happiness.
Read moreOur Connection to Nature
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds.
Professor Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies.
Read moreGet Out in Nature!
Nature Is Healing
There is an ever-growing list of the benefits of natural prescriptions – now researchers say nature could offer a cure for loneliness too.
Read moreAn Interview with an Ethnopharmacologist
Keep reading for five questions with ethnopharmacologist Matteo Politi.
Read moreThe War on Drugs and How it Damages the Environment
The criminalization of drug production and consumption is driving widespread environmental damage and impeding efforts to stop climate change, a new report from The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform & Environmental Justice warned today, in advance of the International Drug Policy Reform Conference and less than two months before the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
The report unveils how prohibitive drug policies – which drive drug cultivation into remote and incredibly fragile ecosystems to evade law enforcement detection – are undermining environmental progress and governance in the world’s tropical forest frontiers.
Read moreBird Songs and Mental Health
Mushrooms in Space
In a new “astromycological” venture launched in conjunction with NASA, mycologist Paul Stamets and various research teams are studying how fungi can be leveraged to build extraterrestrial habitats and perhaps someday even terraform planets.
Read moreTrees
‘Mother Trees’ are intelligent, they learn and remember. And ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive.
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