While observing outdoor settings, students pay attention to specific details and employ critical thinking as they sharpen ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example ...

Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on giving legal ...

Nature is a source of well-being and recovery for many people. However, research shows that there is also a growing number of ...

Best practice examples of wilderness management are in focus of the newly published publication of the PAN Parks Foundation. The 11 best practice examples of various European national parks collected ...

We humans like to think of ourselves as masters of the planet, bending nature to suit our needs. We build roads, carve out neighborhoods, and raise cities from the ground up. But in reality, our ...

While exploring the woods with my young cousins, looking for mushrooms (which were out in abundance after all the recent rain), we found something different, exciting and mushroom-like: fleshy, pale ...

Relatives of cicadas known as sharpshooter insects can catapult pee droplets at superfast speeds, revealing the first known example of "superpropulsion" in nature, a new study finds. This newly ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers investigate the mental health effects of brief nature videos in adolescents. Adolescents exposed to the nature videos ...

Many people know that some animals have more than two eyes, but the variety and function of these extra eyes might surprise you. From reptiles with a hidden “third eye” that senses light, to insects ...

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