By Tom Jacobs Not happy with what you see when you look in a mirror? Well, you can take a hike. Seriously. New research from the United Kingdom finds strolling in nature—or even looking at photographs of the natural world—leaves people feeling better about their bodies. In recent years, a series of studies have found […]
By Andy Rowell Never has the paradox been greater. While the most powerful politician in the world is a climate denier, scientists are now warning that we have just three years to start making radical reductions to greenhouse gases. Put it another way: that is the term of the Trump presidency. We have three and […]
Today is the United Nation’s World Environment Day, which encourages worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. It began in 1972 and is widely celebrated in more than 100 countries. This year’s theme—connect people to nature—encourages people to go outside and “breathe in the beauty and remember that by keeping our planet […]
Thanks to above-average rainfall after an epic drought, spectacular flowers are blossoming throughout California, and now you can track it from space. A few weeks ago, a colorful “super bloom” of sunflowers, sand verbena, dune evening primrose and ocotillos drew crowds of botany enthusiasts to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. These blooms were followed by […]
Human’s impact on planet Earth is huge. Thanks to the work of environmentalist and photographer, J Henry Fair, we can now get a bird’s-eye view of the world’s ever-increasing demand for energy, eating habits and rampant consumerism that are degrading our planet. Fair’s new book, Industrial Scars, The Hidden Costs of Consumption, shows the effects […]
U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a fierce anti-public lands Republican in Utah, is urging President-elect Donald Trump to abolish national monuments created by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. More than 270 million acres of American land and waters are potentially at risk—an area two and a half times the size of California. The action would […]
On election night, as the electoral map turned increasingly red, a swarm of Americans frantically searched the Internet for ways to flee Donald Trump‘s future presidential reign. So many of us visited Canada’s immigration site that it actually crashed. At the same time, the Guardian reported that the number of hits on New Zealand’s immigration […]
By 2030, 1.1 billion more people are expected to be living on Earth—bringing the total to around 8.5 billion. James Cridland / Flickr In a new report published in the journal, Nature, authors Richard T. T. Forman, a Harvard University research professor, and Jianguo Wu, a distinguished professor of sustainability science at Arizona State University, […]
A team of explorers say they have found the deepest underwater cave on Earth. Located in the Czech Republic, near the town of Hranice, the cave is believed to be at least 1,325 feet deep, beating the previous record holder—the 1,286-foot Pozzo del Merro in Italy—by 39 feet. But just how deep the Czech cave, […]
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