Keep reading for five questions with ethnopharmacologist Matteo Politi.
Read moreThe War on Drugs and How it Damages the Environment
The criminalization of drug production and consumption is driving widespread environmental damage and impeding efforts to stop climate change, a new report from The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform & Environmental Justice warned today, in advance of the International Drug Policy Reform Conference and less than two months before the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
The report unveils how prohibitive drug policies – which drive drug cultivation into remote and incredibly fragile ecosystems to evade law enforcement detection – are undermining environmental progress and governance in the world’s tropical forest frontiers.
Read moreBird Songs and Mental Health
Mushrooms in Space
In a new “astromycological” venture launched in conjunction with NASA, mycologist Paul Stamets and various research teams are studying how fungi can be leveraged to build extraterrestrial habitats and perhaps someday even terraform planets.
Read moreTrees
‘Mother Trees’ are intelligent, they learn and remember. And ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive.
Read moreConnection with Nature
Suzanne Simard revolutionized the way we think about plants and fungi with the discovery of the woodwide web. The ecologist’s new book shares the wisdom of a life of listening to the forest.
Read moreSoothing Sounds of the Amazon
Need a break from politics and the pandemic?
You’re probably not in the Amazon rain forest right now, but we can take you there in audio. Today, in part two of our three-part audio sound escape, we descend into a nighttime flood of frog music.
Read moreGet Out in Nature!
… and go birdwatching! It’s a quick, easy way to immerse in nature and feel good.
Read morePsychedelics and Nature
No surprise here, but new research shows that psychedelic drugs produce enduring increases in people’s sense of being connected to nature. Being connected to nature tends to increase one’s overall sense of wellbeing.
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