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The promised £39 million is not enough to ‘level up’ park provision in the UK.
Our feelings about nature depend on lots of factors, but a new study shows our genes are one of the most important.
Green buildings can cost more than conventional structures, but the small increase has noticeable benefits for those working and living within them.
An environmental health scholar shares four resolutions to improve your relationship with the environment – and its prospects for the future.
There’s enormous value in citizen science projects that encourage urban-dwellers to learn about what is often, quite literally, on their doorsteps.
Has the summit delivered on its goals?
The scientists who discovered that a giant panda’s distinctive markings provide camouflage from predators tell us about their latest work
Want to observe native bees? Or seek out invasive species? There are many ways to get hands-on science learning. An expert on adult STEM education suggests four places to start.
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
Plants support human health not only in terms of providing food, oxygen and shade. Our relationships with plants facilitate political decisions and actions that support health in the city.
True blue colour pigments are not very common in nature, so plants and animals perform tricks with the light to generate their shimmering blues.
An astronomer’s guide to all the colours of the sky.
During COVID, many therapists took their sessions online. But others went outside with their clients, taking a leisurely stroll through a near-by park.
The global biodiversity framework will provide goals and targets to stem and reverse the decline in nature until 2050.
New research found girls particularly liked to see wildflowers, hear nature sounds and touch animals and plants.
It may be possible to expand people’s circle of moral concern and, in turn, promote reconciliation through connecting people to nature.
More than 40 fire scientists and forest ecologists in the US and Canada teamed up to investigate why wildfires are getting more extreme. Climate change is part of the problem, but there’s more.
Bees can perceive flower colours and hues which are invisible to us — such as those produced by reflected ultraviolet radiation.
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