Getting kids off their screens and onto a nature trail is the goal of The Conservation Foundation in Naperville. “The more you spend outside the healthier and the happier you're going to be. There's a ...

In our series, Pay Attention, we explore ways to sharpen our focus and recapture our attention from distracting technology. Americans spend an average of 93 percent of their time indoors or inside a ...

Do you feel stress melt away when you’re out in the woods? Forest therapy, a free program offered at Tollgate Farms in Novi this summer, aims to help you capture that feeling more, refreshing and ...

Forest therapy has taken off in the U.S. as a way to lower stress. A guide explains why it works and what it's like to take part. Amos Clifford is the founder and director of the Association of Nature ...

Forest bathing (known as Shinrin-Yoku in Japanese) and forest therapy are ways of immersing our senses in the atmosphere of the forest for relaxation and health and wellness benefits. It came about ...

Beginnings: Phyllis Look’s strong connection with trees and forests began in childhood. “When I was in elementary school, Mānoa Elementary, I had a friend who lived on the woodland side and her front ...

There’s something about stepping into a forest that instantly feels like a breath of fresh air — literally and figuratively.

The Community News Service is a program in which University of Vermont students work with professional editors to provide content for local news outlets at no cost. WCAX was not involved in the ...

Go inside a forest bathing class at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Forest bathing does not require a swimsuit, an actual bath or even water. It does require you to bathe, metaphorically speaking, ...

My husband spent the better part of his forestry career walking through Florida’s wiregrass pine lands where the sight of a rattlesnake coiled in his path was a common occurrence. He often slopped ...

Chico, California, resident Jessie Raeder dug her fingers into the dirt. Before she arrived, she’d been in a “state of clenching,” she said, but this forest therapy walk in the Butte Creek Ecological ...