It is not realistic to suggest that the answer to modern difficulties lies in restricting technology or framing time outdoors as a replacement.
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Our cities are full of obstacles and hazards for native wildlife but also contain many valuable patches of habitat. Creating green spaces to connect these patches improves their lives and ours.
The tangle of greenery along railway lines, flowers growing on vacant lots, or unmown grassy patches under power lines, it turns out people in cities engage with nature in all these spaces.
Astronauts living and working on the Moon will need something to eat. The Growing Beyond Earth program supports international space crop research.
The contestants’ relationships with nature clearly shape their actions. As armchair experts, each of us may reflect on our own relationship with nature and how we would act in the same situation.
New research found girls particularly liked to see wildflowers, hear nature sounds and touch animals and plants.
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