Bridging Research and Policy: Former Interns Reflect on a Multi-Cohort Project
EarthLab summer interns share how their projects supported an upcoming economic analysis on the cost savings of spending time in nature and highlight the vital role science plays in shaping effective green space policy.
Read moreTrump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together, and Moved Forward.
Phillip Levin, PhD · NY Times · April 22, 2025
Levin is a member of the Center’s Research Collaborative
It started with a text in late January: “Call me.”
I was in the Sonoran Desert, fleeing the Pacific Northwest’s winter gloom, and I pulled into a gas station to make the call.
OPINION: Cli-Fi—Helping us Manage a Crisis
BMJ · October 3, 2024
Authored by Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health co-founder and Steering Committee member
Reading fiction is one of the sublime ways to experience art. Stories engage us, absorb us, and stay with us.1 The reader may be transported cognitively and emotionally, and experience images more vivid than those in real life.2 This can be transformative; a compelling narrative may change a reader’s point of view.3 Fiction is “the mind’s flight simulator,” according to novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley,4 helping us understand both our own minds and the world’s complexity.
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OP-ED: The Climate Crisis is a Mental Health Crisis. Building Smart-Surface Public Spaces is an Easy Prescription
By Greg Kats, Howard Frumkin, and Georges C. Benjamin · Amsterdam News · August 15, 2024
Co-Authored by Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health co-founder and Steering Committee member
As the Conference of the Parties (COP) 28 closed with much fanfare and a first-time “transition away” from fossil fuels commitment that’s drawing skeptics, here’s what we do know: The planet we live on and need survival for is getting hotter.
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Revitalize Parks to Strengthen Democracy
Stanford Social Innovation Review · Summer 2024
Co-authored by Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health co-founder and Steering Committee member
Tucked away in the Cascade Mountains of Central Washington, amid miles of hiking trails and fruit orchards, sits Methow Park on the south side of the small town of Wenatchee.
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Parks Have Social Superpowers. Let’s Make More of Them.
Howard Frumkin · Seattle Times · May 17, 2024
Howard is a Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
Across our nation, the bonds of familiarity, trust and solidarity that sustain a strong society are badly frayed.
Making Green Space Available to All
Trust for Public Land · Seattle Times · October 18, 2023
Featuring Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
Nature invites you to discover the many benefits it offers.
Health Professionals and the Climate Crisis: Trusted Voices, Essential Roles
By Edward Maibach, Howard Frumkin, Samantha Ahdoot · World Medical & Health Policy · March 3, 2021
Co-authored by Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
Climate change has triggered a global public health emergency that, unless adequately addressed, is likely to become a multigenerational public health catastrophe.
We Need a National Institute of Climate Change and Health
Howard Frumkin and Richard J. Jackson · Scientific American · November 22, 2020
Howard is a Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
The climate catastrophes of 2020—wildfires, hurricanes, oppressive heat—left no doubt that climate change threatens health.
Getting Children & Teens Outside While Physical Distancing for COVID-19
Danette Glassy and Pooja Tandon · HealthyChildren · September, 17 2020
Co-authored by Dr. Pooja S. Tandon, Nature and Health researcher
Getting outside as a family is a great way to spend time together.