At the beginning of quarantine, the nine-time Grammy nominee, SZA, was releasing new songs because she was “bored” and “losing my mind,” she told BAZAAR.com. But new music wasn’t the only endeavor the singer-songwriter had underway. On Wednesday, SZA along with the nonprofit organization American Forests and the TAZO tea company announced their partnership to […]
By Anne-Sophie Brändlin If, this time last year, the world had been told it would spend much of the coming months in lockdown, few might have believed it. But that reality came, and it did so almost overnight, bringing with it a crashing end to the busy flow of life, which sees billions rushing from […]
By Louise Chawla As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting children and adolescents with nature, and the second on supporting healthy coping when they realize they are part of a planet in peril. My […]
By John R. Platt These days many of us have a natural inclination to “doomscroll” — that constant refreshing of social media so we can gnash our teeth at the most recent bad news. There’s an alternative. Let’s call it hopescrolling — the art and act of looking for beautiful things and important information to […]
Sir David Attenborough wants to share a message about the climate crisis. And it looks like his fellow Earthlings are ready to listen. The beloved 94-year-old nature broadcaster joined Instagram Thursday, and quickly broke the world record for the shortest amount of time to reach one million followers, Guinness World Records announced. He reached the […]
By D. André Green II One of nature’s epic events is underway: Monarch butterflies’ fall migration. Departing from all across the United States and Canada, the butterflies travel up to 2,500 miles to cluster at the same locations in Mexico or along the Pacific Coast where their great-grandparents spent the previous winter. Human activities have […]
One of the best things you can do for your child’s well-being may be to raise them somewhere green. The latest study to examine the positive impacts of nature on children found that children living in greener urban areas had higher IQs than children living in less green areas. “There is more and more evidence […]
By Douglas Broom “Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people,” said former U.S. president, Franklin Roosevelt. Covering almost a third of the Earth’s surface, forests are home to eight in 10 animal and plant species. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says the […]
By Michael Svoboda The enduring pandemic will make conventional forms of travel difficult if not impossible this summer. As a result, many will consider virtual alternatives for their vacations, including one of the oldest forms of virtual reality – books. Two kinds of books meet this challenge while telling stories about climate change. The first […]
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