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

A Snapshot of a Lost World Imagine the Earth during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. The landscape was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deep rainforest is a symphony. In the rainforests of Indonesia, New Guinea, and other wild lands, scientists strapped microphones to trees and recorded the boisterous howls, grumbles, and shrieks ...

Listen to what a prehistoric forest from the Jurassic Period may have sounded like. Experts built a 2-D digital model of each fossil wing and ran physical simulations to determine these sounds.

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, ...