Forest sights and sounds may ease stress in different ways, with forest settings linked to lower heart rate and birdsong to ...

KTU researchers are proposing an innovative forest regeneration model and a sound analysis system that can predict forest conditions and detect environmental changes in real time. "Forests are among ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Recording and analyzing forest soundscapes can be an effective way of monitoring changes in animal communities in tropical forests and human ...

When sensory ecologist Megan Gall joined the faculty at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2013, an experiment presented itself. A number of researchers at Vassar were studying browsing ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

FOREST (for a thousand years…), an epic 28-minute sound installation by renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, will open April 7, outdoors in the redwood grove of UC Santa ...

Travel options are limited for most people due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means one of life's most relaxing experiences—escaping to a forest in a different part of the world—may not be a ...