New research published in Health & Place suggests that engaging in outdoor activities—even alone—might actually protect us from feeling lonely.
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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.
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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 moreShort Film: Waska
Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing
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 moreBird Songs and Mental Health
Trees
‘Mother Trees’ are intelligent, they learn and remember. And ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive.
Read moreConnection with Nature
Suzanne Simard revolutionized the way we think about plants and fungi with the discovery of the woodwide web. The ecologist’s new book shares the wisdom of a life of listening to the forest.
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