“In many decisions, nature has been treated as essentially worthless or of negligible value when compared to other kinds of ...

For decades, flooding has remained one of the most destructive and deadly natural disasters in the United States, causing an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The world today faces a convergence of crises – environmental, economic, ...

We're constantly told that spending time in nature is good for the body and the mind alike. A large body of research shows multiple health benefits from contact with nature, ranging from stress ...

Researchers asked patients, some of whom had experienced lower back pain for up to 40 years, if being in nature helped them coped better with their lower back pain. They found that people able to ...

Johan Kjellberg Jensen received funding from the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC), funded by the Government of Sweden, and funding from The ...