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.
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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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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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.
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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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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Indigenous young people take part in the first Hornbill Festival organized by the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), 16 September 2018.
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