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NPR's Scott Simon talks to climate scientist Kate Marvel about her new book, "Human Nature." It's a look at our changing planet through the lens of nine very human emotions.

The fight against global warming should take a more unified approach to carbon removal that pursues both technical and nature-based solutions, researchers from some of the world’s largest ...

To Design a Microplastics Filter, This Company Copied Nature To solve overflow problems with its microplastics filter for washing machines, CLEANR turned to the animal kingdom for inspiration.

To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, world-shaping forces they are.

A class-action lawsuit alleges that Nature Made exposed unsuspecting pregnant and lactating women to prenatal supplements containing toxic chemicals.

Nature has the power to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Ecotherapy offers practical ways to reconnect, fostering healing, resilience, and improved emotional well-being.

Nature is messy, dramatic, and full of hot gossip. These best nature documentaries spill the tea.

Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust. “In my ...