Spending time in rural and coastal locations is more psychologically beneficial to individuals than time spent in urban green spaces, a new study in the journal Environment & Behavior reports. During ...

But natural environments may offer even more: enhancing mood and cognitive performance even when a person has not previously been stressed or depleted. This is the finding of a review article ...

Although access to nature is a basic human right, people's actual use of green spaces is subject to inequalities. A Kobe University-led research team analyzed what conditions make it more likely that ...

At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

Parkland. Image by Tim Sandle. When people talk about spending time in nature, the phrase often suggests a single, universal experience. Whether it is a walk through a city park, a weekend camping ...

We often forget that we exist as a part of an ecosystem, profoundly impacted by the environments surrounding us. But walk into nature, the land that we co-evolved alongside, and the nervous system ...