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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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April 8, 2020
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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.
The study found 10-20 minutes a day reduced stressed and anxiety for students aged 15-30.
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A review of evidence found that sitting or walking in nature for 10 to 20 minutes could benefits student mental health.
Owl: nature’s soothsayer?
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The natural world is full of intriguing clues.
Indigenous young people take part in the first Hornbill Festival organized by the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), 16 September 2018.
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The world’s millions of indigenous people play a critical role in conserving biodiversity.
Albert Bierstadt, Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870.
Literature of the past can help us to make the cultural shift that’s necessary to address climate change.
Natural?
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The answer lies in determining what we are and what we want to become.
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Psychedelic drugs are creating waves as evidence mounts of their therapeutic potential. New research also suggests they might mitigate the climate crisis by unlocking a lost connection to nature.
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The words used to describe the natural world are dwindling - some are even being hijacked and given modern new meanings.
A Tsaatan community in northern Mongolia, herding reindeer.
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Who wins, who loses and whose natures are being talked about when nature-based solutions are proposed?
When land central to the identity of locals is reshaped, so is the political landscape.
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Big development projects can mean the loss of a community’s identity and connection to their past.
A koala mother and joey seeking refuge on a bulldozed log pile near Kin Kin in Queensland. Federal environment laws have failed to prevent widespread land clearing across Australia.
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Environment Minister Sussan Ley has announced a review of Australia’s nature laws. The poor state of our biodiversity shows we must do a better job of protecting the places we love.
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From happier and healthier residents to more resilient buildings – green roofs offer significant benefits to cities.
Visitors walk through Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s installation ‘Fireflies on the Water.’
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Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.