Exposure to nature provides physical and mental health benefits. Learn more about how to develop your own "nature ...

If you’re looking to avoid the crowds, you might want to consider visiting one of the thousands of state parks across the ...

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Daniel Goldberg of Richmond’s Feral Ecology invited the public to join in its summer harvest of backyard and streetside loquat trees this year, and a plum harvest is up next.

Teaching our kids about the planet, its resources, and how to appreciate and protect them is one of the most important t ...

It’s never too early to teach your kids to appreciate nature. In fact, the sooner they learn, the better. They need to b ...

The smashed, fractured, and non-functional can frustrate us—and illuminate who we are.

As the Trump administration ramps up attacks on the environment, a new tactic giving legal rights to lakes, rivers, and trees is gaining momentum.

Marlene Condon: Learn from nature on Earth Day Our overconcern has resulted in the unnecessary poisoning of the Earth with pesticides in unwarranted efforts to “save” plants that, in fact, don ...

Biomimicry: What Nature Can Teach us about Engineering and Design We explore the field of biomimicry, and how everyone from architects to engineers to medical researchers are drawing inspiration from ...

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age New analysis methods, applied to ancient plant DNA, reveal how hard-hit plants were and are by global ...

What can we learn from nature by listening? People often simplify complex relationships down to perceptions of either cooperation or competition.