A brief walk in the forest for 15 minutes can result in a better state of mind. You do not have to walk for long periods in the forest order to reap the mental or physical benefits of forest therapy.

The Francis Beidler forest land near the Four Holes Swamp could be under threat by an expansion of a right-of-way by ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning ...

Biologist Kathy Willis spoke to Live Science about how touching wood makes us calmer, why looking at a picture of a savanna is calming and how walking through a forest changes our gut microbes.

One man has admitted he feared for his safety and left immediately after an 'eerie' encounter while walking in a forest a ...

In 2006, Kathleen Knight was walking through a forest in northwest Ohio. She's a researched ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service. All around her were big, beautiful ash trees, tall trunks with ...

Walking through a forest in Indonesia, a researcher noticed some brightly colored creatures on the stony ground. The “vampire”-like animals were popular aquarium pets — and a new species.