INTERVIEWER What is shinrin-yoku? MIYAZAKI YOSHIFUMI It’s an activity where people relax by synchronizing, or harmonizing, with the forest. The term was coined in 1982 by Akiyama Tomohide, director of ...

The story so far: The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 has received limited attention and little discussion about its impact on forests and its inhabitants. From the colonial forest law in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Maria is an energy economist, focussing on the role of business. Clearing the forest destroys for ever the fragile equilibrium of ...

The degradation of trees at the edges of tropical forests is more widespread than previously thought, according to new research. The study, published in Nature, explains that trees near deforested or ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

I am walking through Aokigahara Jukai forest, the light rapidly fading on a mid-winter afternoon, when I am stopped dead in my tracks by a blood-curdling scream. The natural reaction would be to run, ...