A Boston hospital fights staff burnout and boosts patient morale with forest bathing — getting people outside for some time in nature.

Doctors spend years becoming experts in how the body works, how it can break down and how to recognize and treat various illnesses. Their training rarely involves what’s known as “nature-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It was a particularly chaotic time. As the war in the Middle East raged on, sparking relentless and horrific news headlines, a family member unexpectedly landed in the hospital here in California.

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 ...

Forest therapy is a "slow, mindful walk in the woods or a nature area and you use your five senses to reconnect with nature," Oskar Elmgart tells CNBC Make It. Oskar and Nicole Elmgart are the ...

For Margaret Sullivan, the connection was with a rotting log that was sprouting new life. For Religious of the Sacred Heart Sr. Maureen Glavin, it was the way in which seed pods sprouted from the ...

Hughes Kraft worked as a mental health therapist for more than 20 years before he was turned on to forest bathing a few years ago. As an avid outdoorsman, the idea of combining nature with therapy ...

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 ...