Here are some of the most recent Nature posts.
Teaching STEM with nature play…
New Research On Outdoor Learning As preschools and kindergartens across Australia embrace bush schooling and ‘nature play’, a research team led by Southern Cross University is working with young children and their teachers to unearth the evidence. The researchers will...
New Moon – Setting Intentions
Have you ever seen the crescent Moon’s ashen glow? Known also as Earthshine, Earthlight, planet-shine and—perhaps most poetically Present Time and Do What Doing When Doing It Following is the outine of a course I facilitate on New Moon – Setting Intentions. It covers...
Ain’t no sunshine on these farms: Why vertical gardens could be the future of food production
By Doloresz Katanich with AFP • Updated: 27/07/2021 Producing locally-grown greens all year round can be done without soil or sunshine, as vertical farms across Europe are showing. One of the largest shows why you should never judge a book by its cover. What looks...
What Can We Learn From Indigenous Groups About Safeguarding The Environment?
Indigenous-governed land has the highest levels of biodiversity. - Copyright AP By Marthe de Ferrer • Updated: 09/08/2021 One million animal and plant species are at risk of extinction right now - and that number is only growing. Ecological decline on this...
Cool Earth Protecting Rainforests and Villages From Exploitation
Cool Earth works alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction. Its Ashaninka project in Peru aimed to protect 5,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest but has already protected 137,000 acres. In 2008, like thousands of other Peruvian villages, Cutivireni...
This simple addition to a city can dramatically improve people’s mental health
Trees have been scientifically proven to improve mental health. Image: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Street trees can help reduce the need for antidepressants among city dwellers, according to new research. Its findings back up studies that indicate time spent among foliage...
Plans to plant ten trees for every person in Glasgow City Region
Date: Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 Over the next decade, ten trees for every man, woman and child in Glasgow City Region will be planted as part of a new urban ‘forest’ to tackle climate change. The ambitious planting pledge lies at the heart of the new Clyde Climate Forest,...
Ginger is a plant that originated from Southeast Asia. Undoubtedly, it is one of the healthiest spices that exist. Scientifically, it belongs to the Zingiberaceae family, which is closely related to cardamom, galangal, and turmeric. The underground part of the...
JOSHUA TREE – STRANGE DESERT PLANT
First of all, the Joshua Tree is not a tree, although it does look like somewhat like one. It is a plant in the Yucca family. It is most common in California and Arizona but is also found in Nevada, Utah, Mexico and the Caribbean. Early Mormon settlers named the...
Rare Black Diamond Apple
The Albanian farmer from Dibra Zija Keshi experimented with the cultivation of Black Diamond apple in May of this year by cultivating just 10 seedlings. The experiment of Keshi with the culmination of the unique Black Diamond Apple has proved successful by bearing...
Fruit flies give researchers new insights into the ‘highway of the nerve cells’
“We share around 75 percent of disease-related genes with fruit flies. Beyond that, we know that the genes coding for Rab2 look alike in many different species—they have a high degree of evolutionary conservation.
EARTH DAY 2021 AS THE WORLD RETURNS TO NORMAL, WE CAN’T GO BACK TO BUSINESS-AS-USUAL.
From April 20-22, join the world’s leaders for Earth Day 2021. Together, we can prevent the coming disasters of climate change and environmental destruction. Together, we can Restore Our Earth™. Come back on April 20 for the start of the event, and follow our...
Nine Girls between 7-14, have made Legal History in Ecuador After Suing and Winning
An appeals court judge ruled that the Ecuadorian oil industry’s long-permitted practice of gas flaring— dubbed “flares of death” by local residents— is unconstitutional. Flaring is a practice in which the oil industry burns the byproducts of oil extraction, producing...
Women Defenders Unite to Protect the Amazon
"Indigenous women are powerful! Together we can create real change, so it is time we step into that power. Over the last few weeks, we have worked to serve and organize more than 30 communities of six Indigenous nationalities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We are...
All Good Things
Living one day at a time and filling it with love and laughter brings all good things!!! ~ pa’ris’ha
Care About Others
We all really care about others, just keep including more as you come to understand them, and respect we are all different, it’s just natural. Pa'Ris'Ha
What One Fears One Destroys.
My morning begins with the chorus of chatter of the feathered relations!! And Hawk makes herself very visible and I greet her as usual. She sits on a branch near me, and we study each other. Her eyes piercing and her head doing some sideward look, she makes herself...
What Is Black Seed Oil? All You Need to Know
Black seed oil contains thymoquinone, which is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound that may also have tumor-reducing properties.
Sustainable Palm Oil Progress
Peru and Columbia are setting an example to stop deforestation in the production of palm oil while companies like Mars plan some sweet improvements in the sourcing of palm oil. Palm oil is by far the most efficient vegetable oil to grow as it takes less land to...