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Pandemic stress can be relieved by cultivating greenery, which makes people happier and more relaxed The essayist Jia Tolentino wrote last year about people being in the grip of “houseplant fever”; ads for houseplants called “Ken” or “Pippa” pop up on the internet; a Zoom call isn’t complete without a plant somewhere in evidence; and

The question of who breathes, and who suffocates, is a question of who deserves to live. It’s a question that will only become more urgent as the climate crisis develops This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020 The medical term is acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The question framed the existence of a human-made climate crisis as something that is for some Americans still debatable The long-awaited climate question in last night’s presidential debate broke a 20-year silent streak from moderators on the crisis – thrusting it into prime time but also revealing just how stuck in the past much of

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Thierry Bréchet, Pierre-André Jouvet

Overreliance on synthetic insecticides in global agriculture is the outcome of a “pesticide treadmill,” in which insecticide-induced pest resistance development and the depletion of beneficial insect populations aggravate farmers’ pesticide dependencies. Examples of the pesticide treadmill have been witnessed repeatedly over the past seven decades, prompting the question whether the rapid uptake and usage patterns

Only one in five Americans with right-wing outlook said they had a lot of trust in scientists People in the US are more sharply divided along political lines when it comes to science and environmental issues than in other parts of the world, new research shows. Globally, people who see themselves on the left side