Teaching Kids to Love Nature (and Buy Less Stuff)
A new book, "The Failure of Environmental Education," says schools are failing to teach kids how to save the planet.
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New Studies Help Boy Scouts ‘Be Prepared’
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful — and the subject of much research after a hundred years in existence.
Reconnecting Children and Nature
It may not be recognized by the AMA, but nature deficit disorder is raising Cain with children in the industrialized world — and it can be fought.
CSI: Wildlife — Solving Mysterious Animal Deaths
Carol Meteyer solves cases of mysterious wildlife death using advanced forensic skills to help prosecute people who kill animals in violation of federal law.
T.C. Boyle Interview: Nature and the Novelist
Miller-McCune Q&A: In "When the Killing's Done," novelist T.C. Boyle once again examines humankind’s conflicted attitudes toward the natural world.
Ray Allen Scores in the Nature-Nurture Debate
We can learn from Ray Allen, Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon, even if we can never hope to beat them on the court.
Thoreau Was Right: Nature Hones the Mind
Studies show nature restores our spirits, improves our thinking, keeps us healthier and probably even saner.
Bald Eagles Will Eat Almost Anything
The top predator on California's northern Channel Islands might start dining on recovering foxes and seabirds, scientists warn.
Save a Jaguar. Treat Your Cows Well.
Conservationists hope to save the Jaguar, the Western Hemisphere's biggest cat, by improving cattle management in Brazil's biodiverse Pantanal.
Planetary Boundaries? Go Ask the Romans
Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday.