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

By Karen Perrell Campbell This week, I took a quiet walk through the woods surrounding my home at Stillwood Pond and felt something I think many of us are longing for — peace, connection and a deep ...

Forest bathing dates back to ancient Japanese Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that spirits inhabit natural elements, which can ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.