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House plants enrich our domestic lives in ways we often fail to notice. But lockdown may have changed all that.
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Why structured contact with nature, rolled out with government support, will go a long way to solving the psychological distress of coronavirus.
What does a more desirable future for people and the planet look like.
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What are the visions that reflect the diverse values that nature holds for people?
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We know that spending time in nature is good for physical and mental well-being, but social inequality means not everyone has easy access to parks, gardens and woodland.
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The proposed changes to be introduced to Parliament in August may ultimately damage the natural places they’re designed to protect.
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A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
Collecting data on invasive plants, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data sets and making it harder to track ecological change.
Wind-animated sunlight shining through a glass roof pond at the ‘Mansion of Water,’ designed by Toshihito Yokouchi, in Himeji, Japan.
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Beyond buying a fish tank or house plants, there are a number of creative ways to bring nature’s calming effects into your home.
The design called for plants and play spaces – big improvements over brick and razor wire.
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About half of incarcerated women in the United States are mothers to children under age 18. Natural spaces within a prison can help maintain their mother-child bonds.
Human-made sounds are giving way to more natural sounds as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes people indoors.
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With people staying in, the world around them is becoming more quiet. In one Canadian city, natural sounds are being heard more often.
During coronavirus lockdowns, gardens have served as an escape from feelings of alienation.
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What drives people to garden isn’t the fear of hunger so much as hunger for physical contact – and a longing to engage in work that is real.
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What a hungry Red kite tells us about human-animal relationships.
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Humans have an innate affinity with nature. Embracing this in your home while locked down may improve your productivity and health.
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Noting nature around you – it could be a glance outside, tending plants, or ‘green’ exercise – will improve your well-being, research shows. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more important.
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Wildlife is returning to our deserted cities. But will they stay once life returns to normal?
Discuss how flying less could help the planet.
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By not talking about climate change, especially the powerful emotions it can provoke, misinformation and eco-anxiety may take root.
Omo Forest, a home for elephants, in Ijebu East and North Local Government Areas, Ogun State, Nigeria
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Protected areas in Nigeria are generally hampered by limited funds and resources.
‘Today, the pond. Tomorrow, the world!’
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With wild boar in Barcelona and coyotes in San Francisco, the lockdown has transformed concrete jungles worldwide.
Conservation is as much about the critical role of communities as custodians of biodiversity as it is about creating people-free zones.
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With the 2020 deadline for conserving biodiversity almost past, communities must now play a larger role in conservation.
Fire cut a devastating swath through Australia in 2019-20, leaving a heavy toll of death and destruction in its wake.
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Philanthropy in the form of financial donations is not a solution to the natural disasters caused by climate change. A new philanthropy of social change is needed.