A sad reality of modern urban living and the corporate grind is that many of us are starved of nature in our daily lives, despite the fact that the United States alone contains around 750 million acres of forests.
But now you can simulate escaping to a real forest and basking in the tranquility of the trees, right from your desk. The Virtual Forest is a projected launched earlier this month by Koen Hufkens, an ecologist at Harvard University’s Richardson Lab, which broadcasts a live feed of continuously refreshing, 360-degree still images (one every 15 minutes) from a spot deep in the middle of the Harvard Forest, a plot of land in Western Massachusetts that is owned by the university and open to researchers and the public.
