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, ...

This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. To the extent that "relaxing" online is ...

According to a new study, the sounds of nature alter connections in our brains, reducing the body’s natural fight-or-flight instinct You know that feeling of clear-headed calm that washes over you ...

Weather is among the first things people think about when it comes to nature. 1Weather is probably the best weather app right now. It features all the basic stuff like current weather, ten day ...

Many city dwellers who are tired of subjecting their auditory systems to the jarring noises of urban life block out the noise by sticking some earphones in and losing themselves in their favorite ...

When Mark Brennan moved from Scotland to rural Nova Scotia, he saw the natural landscape with fresh eyes. A landscape artist, Brennan was awestruck. He began to record the chorus of the Canadian ...

London: Sounds of nature such as the gentle burbling of a brook or the gushing of the wind in the trees may help us relax by physically changing our mind and bodily systems, a new study has found.

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 ...