{"id":10606,"date":"2021-03-23T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"research-study-by-carleton-universitys-rachel-buxton-want-to-improve-your-health-a-new-study-says-head-into-nature-and-absorb-the-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/research-study-by-carleton-universitys-rachel-buxton-want-to-improve-your-health-a-new-study-says-head-into-nature-and-absorb-the-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Study by Carleton University\u2019s Rachel Buxton &#8211; Want to Improve Your Health? A New Study Says Head into Nature and Absorb the Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Research Study by Carleton University\u2019s Rachel Buxton &#8211; Want to Improve Your Health? A New Study Says Head into Nature and Absorb the Sounds\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A recently published study from Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\">Rachel Buxton<\/a>, research scientist in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\">Department of Biology<\/a>, and researchers from Michigan State University, Colorado State University and the National Park Service analyzed studies on the outcomes of listening to natural sounds and found striking human health benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolves howling, birds singing, rain falling\u2014natural sounds inspire people and connect them to nature and this new research shows these sounds are also good for our health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2021\/want-to-improve-your-health-a-new-study-says-head-into-nature-and-absorb-the-sounds\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently published study from Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;Rachel Buxton, research scientist in the&nbsp;Department of Biology, and researchers from Michigan State University, Colorado State University and the National Park Service analyzed studies on the outcomes of listening to natural sounds and found striking human health benefits. Wolves howling, birds singing, rain falling\u2014natural sounds inspire people and connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}