New article in EHP: Developing the Science of Nature as a Public Health Resource

Two years ago I wrote a full-length feature for Environmental Health Perspectives on the connection between parks, nature, and human health. As the story showed, we know there's a link, but we can't say much conclusively about why or how, exactly, parks, nature, and other outdoor experiences (or their analogues) benefit health.

My latest Science Selection for EHP takes on the topic again, reporting on a new multidisciplinary commentary out of the University of Washington (led by accomplished environmental-health expert Howard Frumkin) assessing what we know and what we don't while proposing an exhaustive research agenda to guide the field as it matures.

Read the new story here.