Newswise: Smartphone Use Goes Up in City Parks, But Down in Forests

Newswise: Smartphone Use Goes Up in City Parks, But Down in Forests. “The new research, which tracked the smartphone activity of 700 study participants for two years, reveals that participants’ smartphone activity actually increased during visits to city parks and other urban green spaces…. participants who visited nature reserves or forests saw significant declines in screen time over the first three hours, compared to visiting urban locations for the same amount of time.”