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Here are a few ways you can benefit from nature in and around your home without stepping foot in a garden.
Practitioners of Pagan religions no longer need to go into a forest to find an object for their altars. Commercialization means that sacred objects are available online.
Time is, after all, at the heart of climate narratives.
Online searches search trends reveal that there’s a growing link between modern ways of living and the vicious cycle of biophobia.
Only by understanding our past and current relationship with soil can we reflect and change our partnership with soil from extraction and exploitation to respect, relationality and reciprocity.
Great crested newts cause expensive delays to construction – trained sniffer dogs may offer a solution.
An anthropology course explores how peoples and cultures around the world use nature-based medicines to heal.
A public survey found 86% of people want more space for nature in the city. The city council is already taking steps to add green space and increase biodiversity, which should boost public wellbeing.
In the last Census, 33,148 Australians identified with a nature religion, or Paganism. Who are the Pagans – and what do they do and believe?
Brain injury survivors report the sport can give constant opportunities for learning and a way to reevaulate emotions.
The natural world is awash with liars – here are nature’s best.
For animals to find the motivation to forage and mate, life must be at least slightly positive.
The contestants’ relationships with nature clearly shape their actions. As armchair experts, each of us may reflect on our own relationship with nature and how we would act in the same situation.
There are arguments over the future of red deer on the Scottish island of South Uist but archaeological expertise can help people live alongside wild animals.
Numerous studies indicate exercise as an effective treatment for people with existing depression and other mental illnesses, and exercising in nature can further improve mental well-being.
Experiencing nature helps people in times of joy and pain. However, inequity of access to green spaces means that South Africans cannot enjoy nature when they need to.
Ants are skilled surgeons, bacteria have their own internet, and scientists think sperm whales have names.
If you’re reading this over a mug of tea or coffee, you’re using plants to alter your body chemistry.
Houseplants can lift our spirits – but not all plants have the same effect.
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