Hearing Nature Sounds (12-27-23)
Research continues on the implications of hearing nature sounds; findings from the recent study profiled here were published in Global Environmental Change. A team from the University of Exeter lead by Smalley “analysed data . . . collected as part of the BBC’s . . . Forest 404. . . . Participants listened to a range of environments in the study, from coastal and woodland settings in the UK, to a tropical rainforest in Papua New Guinea. . . . Participants reported therapeutic effects from listening to landscape elements such as breaking waves or falling rain.