Wilderness gives our mental health a real boost. But growing private interests in national parks are stopping those less well off from free nature therapy.
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Plant parents will be pleased to know just how beneficial houseplants can be for your health.
Nature is both the trigger for, and answer to, the grief that will increasingly be with us.
The recent State of the Environment report assessed nature’s impact to Australians’ wellbeing for the first time. Here’s what it found.
Publicly accessible gardens are an essential part of our food system. It’s important for policymakers to understand that growing food in city gardens is central to health, food security and culture.
For Wiccans, midsummer, with the maximum hours of sunlight, is the time for celebrating new life.
As a major conference on the global biodiversity crisis opens in Montreal, a conservation biologist explains how ideas about protecting nature have evolved over the past 40 years.
Authors writing for Nature journals will also need to separate sex and gender data, so it can’t just be lumped in with other results.
In a process called ‘reverse socialisation’, children can help their elders become more green - but eco education is key.
The more new housing a neighbourhood has, the less of the local area is dedicated to green space, which has knock-on effects for wellbeing and the climate crisis.
Green spaces can be used as non-coercive modes of warfare to further social cohesion and diminish the likelihood of insurgency.
With nine brains, blue blood and a talent for camouflage, the octopus is one of the most fascinating creatures in the sea.
Films like Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro and Nausicaä created by Hayao Miyazaki explore the perils of neglecting nature.
Clearing alien trees before the drought hit could have reduced the impact of climate change on water supply during the ‘Day Zero’ drought.
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?
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