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After a handshake, we learned this week that we sniff our hands. But why? Hand smells are not all that interesting in themselves. This points to possibilities that you might not want to hear.
How good are you at caring for your houseplants? Come to that, how good are you at caring for yourself? Symbio, a new app still currently in development, will connect your well-being to that of your plants…
Here’s an activity for you this weekend: either staying at home or heading bush, count the number and type of birds you see. It’s all part of BirdLife Australia’s Challenge Count, an annual event that’s…
When you look out of your window in the morning, how many trees do you see? Your answer might depend on what suburb you live in. As you go further from the city centre, the amount of tree cover in a suburb…
Earlier this year, an American mother was arrested for allowing her nine year old daughter to play unsupervised in a park while she finished her shift at work. Even though this story got a lot of press…
We must all now be very familiar with complaints about how the hours we spend glued to our devices eat into family time and other meaningful relationships. Stories range from children who’d rather play…
The National Trust has reported that the seasonal activities of plants and animals in the UK have been exceptionally early in 2014. Spring and summer have come early – and observations from some parts…
Over the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to the potentially strong El Niño event brewing in the Pacific Ocean. But there is also the potential for an emerging climate phenomenon in the…
Visit any urban park on a sunny day and you’ll see people relaxing with newspapers, books and, of course, phones and tablets. The digital has become part of our outdoor lives and that trend is set to continue…
We know that trees have many benefits. In forests they provide habitat, wood, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In cities, they can mitigate the urban heat island effect by cooling the air and reducing…
Humans use their eyes constantly while communicating with others. Eye movements can be gestures, so that when we see someone glance to the side, we look in the same direction. Eyes can also be a warning…
Environmental psychologists have long known that encounters with the natural world are good for us. But nature can now also be found in our virtual lives – in the photos we share online, the games we play…
An increasing weakness with age is not a law of nature. Most look at ageing as a process from young and healthy to becoming…
The idea behind biodiversity offsets is to develop a new way of preserving nature that more accurately accounts for the value to us of the natural world. The abundance and diversity of plants and animals…
The sudden death on Friday of the Irish Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney has focused international minds and media on the power of poetry to affect our lives. This is especially true from an environmental…
Toxic industrial pollutants contaminate bird eggs in Australia’s major eastern cities at levels seven to nine times higher…
Genetic variation persists through generations, rather than being bred out in an evolution towards a “perfect type”, shows…
While researchers have already known for a long time that dolphins associate in the equivalent of human “mum’s clubs”, the…
The efficiency of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialised serrated teeth and venom, say researchers…
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Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Brighton
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Visiting Fellow, The Media School, Bournemouth University
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Applied Ecology, University of Reading
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Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
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Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Climate & Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester
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Assistant Researcher, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
