A computer simulation shows how urban life has eroded our ties to the outdoors—and how we could reverse it by 2050.

"Our findings show that even simple shifts in attention like noticing the sounds, textures, or smells of nature around us can have a meaningful impact on well-being. Gardens offer an excellent setting ...

Spending time in nature helps people to identify what is meaningful in their lives, shows a new Finnish study conducted at the University of Turku. The research article has been published in the ...

Spending time outdoors has long been shown to enhance physical and mental well-being by encouraging exercise, fostering social interaction, reducing stress and anxiety, elevating mood, improving focus ...

Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds, but researchers think that personal conversations are needed, too. Climate-communication researchers who spoke to Nature’s ...

Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That's the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Vienna explored how experiences with nature can benefit consumers struggling with physical pain. Their work found that an experience as simple as ...

A year ago, a paper published in the journal Nature made a sweeping claim: The world economy was already on track to lose 19 percent of global gross domestic product by 2050, compared with what it ...