Whether it’s a walk in the park, hike in the forest or tending to a backyard garden, there’s ample subjective and scientific evidence that being in nature can have beneficial effects for us, from ...

Marie Simonin is a research scientist at INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. Emily S. Bernhardt has received funding to research the impacts of ...

Today, as the world celebrates this year’s World Environment Day to sensitise the public to threats harmful human activities pose to the environment, CHINAKA OKORO writes that governments and ...

Fig. 1. (A) Processes involved in human activities through CE impact GWS. (B) Time trends of CEP (in kilograms of CO 2 ) from energy industry (ENE), combustion for manufacturing (IND), production of ...

Deforestation in Tongsa, Bhutan, 2013 (Photo by Curt Carnemark / World Bank) WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2015 (ENS) – Human activities have “dangerously compromised” four of the nine processes that ...

Microbes are present in most environments on Earth, from the depths of the ocean to the air we breathe, and even live inside other organisms where they play an important biological role. They are ...

Environmental chemists are passionate about sustainability, conservation, and protection of natural resources. They must be able to make good judgments and have excellent planning, organizing, and ...

In brief: Traditional studies of the human brain have typically focused on capturing snapshots of the organ's state at specific points in time. However, by tracking brain activity with more tools and ...