In recent years there has been considerable and increasing attention paid to using the forest environment as a place for recreation and health promotion. This trend comes from Japan, where it is called shinrin-yoku, a term that means “taking in the forest atmosphere through all of our senses” or, more simply, “forest bathing”. Alpine forests […]
Indication: higher stress levels
Waterfalls
European mountain regions host numerous Alpine waterfalls that produce inhalable, negatively charged nano-water particles known as “Lenard ions” (see also air Ions). Negative air ions close by waterfalls, the so called “ionosols”, are generated by aerosolization of water droplets on an obstacle, an aqueous surface or by aerodynamic break-up during free fall. After breaking up, […]