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"Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment"
#Forests #Nature #Environment

Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment
Sitting in a small, restored forest while listening to birdsong lowered people’s stress and lifted their mood in the moment, according to a recent study published in the journal Environmental Conservation. Researchers asked 106 students at North Carolina State University in the U.S. to sit outdoors in noise-canceling headphones at two spots on campus: A […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Forest Drive West:
🎵 Bias
#ForestDriveWest
https://forestdrivewest.bandcamp.com/track/bias
https://open.spotify.com/track/70Ejog1o6kvFyYDcszXxr3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Forest Factory:
🎵 TIKTIKTIK
#ForestFactory

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Forest:
🎵 Graveyard
#Forest
https://grimslippers.bandcamp.com/track/psychopathic-forest
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bV19g5J1NtmOyprvRxUNo

#ForestryEngland leap into action after the disastrous* wildfire in the New Forest by, er, asking campsite operators to ban portable barbeques. Horse, stable door. Stable door, horse. Oh wait, where did he go?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmq56755ve09t?post=asset:34e2147e-ba7d-487f-ab5b-dec981161f14#post
* Disastrous in terms of rare wildlife habitat and indeed the flora and fauna itself, relative to the past few thousand years, but of course in a few short years the criteria for disaster will be ratcheted up a few notches. No-one was even hurt, for instance, as far as I know, let alone killed. Living in another Forestry England area makes me a bit pessimistic about the future.

If you have an opportunity to visit a freshly-burned forest, look for pyrophilic beetles (e.g., certain species in Sericoda, Melanophila, Monochamus) and flies (Microsania). Some have specialized antennae for detecting smoke, others use infrared-sensing areas on abdomen or thorax to locate hot spots. #fire #smoke #weather #canada #beetles #coleoptera #insects #flies #trees #forests