Browsing: nature

Sleep. Exercise. Eat well. It’s the oldest recommendation in medicine, repeated so often it’s become a cliche. We know the advice, even if we don’t always…

In a boardroom in an office building in Oban, a picturesque town on the west coast of Scotland, trustees attending meetings have long been able to…

As a recent study revealed almost half of UK adults now spend less than three hours a week in natural settings such as gardens, parks, fields…

Climbing trees, squelching in mud, paddling in ponds or making dens in the woods – people’s memories of playing outside as children are often vivid and,…

Here’s a confession that may alarm faithful readers of this newsletter: I am an environment reporter who does not love nature.Before I get cancelled, yes, I…

For decades, films out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have opened with Leo the roaring lion, garlanded with the motto ars gratia artis: art for art’s sake. Given that…

About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and…

Selling artwork was one way of making extra money that PhD students reported in the poll.Credit: Klaus Vedfelt/GettyA cost-of-living crisis is compelling some PhD researchers to…

“What you’ve got there from the sun on your face is a massive boost of serotonin!” says Alison Greenwood, founder of Dose of Nature, the charity…

Weda Bay is just one example of a global trend that could see the mining industry expand into some of Earth’s last areas of wilderness in…