Next time you are touring your garden, walking on wooded trails, or exploring a beachside scenery, look for immaculate swirling patterns. These can be found in the center of a sunflower, a snail’s ...

A proposal before the Securities and Exchange Commission would allow the New York Stock Exchange to list companies with missions to improve ecosystems. Investors could soon buy into companies trading ...

In 2017, Yiyun Li’s 16-year-old son, Vincent, died by suicide. Nearly seven years later, his younger brother, James, then 19, also took his own life. With her second memoir, Li examines the ...

Exercising in natural outdoor environments boosts mood, energy, and vigor. Here’s what research shows—and how to put it into ...

“Call it a combination of keen attention and ‘a profound indifference’ (to borrow Camus’s words) or a combination of intense emotion and an equally intense apathy. The fact is, there is no word for ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

When I heard what Yiyun Li’s new book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” was about, my first thought was that I could never read it. The book was written in the aftermath of the suicide of her son James ...

In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li writes from a terrain no one chooses to map. Her spare memoir confronts the suicide of her younger son James in 2024, six years and four months after her ...

The head of the Government’s official environment advisors said he is “concerned” over the budget for nature restoration ahead of the upcoming spending review. Tony Juniper, chairman of Natural ...