Who doesn’t love a good walk? It’s accessible, it’s free and it’s great for your health. The mental and physical benefits of getting your steps in are impressive, but these days, walking is trendy too ...

It’s hard to ignore the benefits of walking. Getting more steps in throughout your day can improve many health markers, including promoting better sleep, reducing blood pressure and lowering your risk ...

With every step on the trail, fallen leaves crinkle underfoot. The path follows a stream, rushing and burbling over smooth, gray stones, while a breeze rustles the branches overhead. Now compare that ...

“Go outside” or “touch grass” are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where ...

Evidence that nature is good for you continues to mount, as a new study that compared nature walkers with urban walkers found that folks in the former group were better able to rest their brains. The ...

With every step on the trail, fallen leaves crinkle underfoot. The path follows a stream, rushing and burbling over smooth, gray stones, while a breeze rustles the branches overhead. Now compare that ...

As an urban dweller, I am all too familiar with how the sights and sounds of the city can be grating for the nerves and induce stress reactions in the body and mind. It takes vigilance to find ways to ...

Urban wilderness takes some funky forms. And one of the funkiest bits of urban wilderness you’ll find in the entire borough of Brooklyn is on the shoreline of Newtown Creek — a staggeringly polluted ...