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A weekend under the sky moves your body clock most of the way back to sunrise, and a review of 108 brain studies shows the stress circuits settling within minutes. Here is a place an hour and a half from Sydney to try it.
One good story, from the earth to the sea.
On 5 October the Wombat, Pyrenees and Mount Buangor forests become Victoria's first new national parks in more than a decade, after decades of local people looking after them. Greater gliders, platypus and powerful owls live there, and they are a couple of hours from Melbourne.
Ten years ago a team in Brazil chose a tree seed over a chemical. Now that seed pulls microplastics out of drinking water as well as the industry standard, and it is cleaning river water in their laboratory. Professor Adriano Reis and his team sent us their photographs and their story.
Red tailed phascogales are tiny tree climbing marsupials whose males live a single season. At Mt Gibson in Western Australia the count has just doubled to the most in nine years, and in South Australia they have bred in the wild three years running.
Off the Oregon coast the first grid connected wave energy test site in the United States is open after fifteen years of work, with room for twenty machines and a promise to study how they sit with marine life. A Fremantle company is about to put its own wave machine in the sea in Spain.
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
How lucky we are, to look after each other and the marine life, together.
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
On 5 October the Wombat, Pyrenees and Mount Buangor forests become Victoria's first new national parks in more than a decade, after decades of local people looking after them. Greater gliders, platypus and powerful owls live there, and they are a couple of hours from Melbourne.
Red tailed phascogales are tiny tree climbing marsupials whose males live a single season. At Mt Gibson in Western Australia the count has just doubled to the most in nine years, and in South Australia they have bred in the wild three years running.
How lucky we are, to look after each other and the marine life, together.
Once a year on Bonaire, divers, snorkelers, dive shop staff and people who simply live there spend a morning tending the island's underwater coral nurseries, then come ashore for a party.
Off the Oregon coast the first grid connected wave energy test site in the United States is open after fifteen years of work, with room for twenty machines and a promise to study how they sit with marine life. A Fremantle company is about to put its own wave machine in the sea in Spain.
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
Twenty projects around San Francisco Bay have just been funded together, and almost all of them are places you will be able to walk to.
On a flat grey Dutch lake, engineers dredged sand and clay and silt off the bottom and shaped it into islands, and this week those islands turn ten.
Ten years ago a team in Brazil chose a tree seed over a chemical. Now that seed pulls microplastics out of drinking water as well as the industry standard, and it is cleaning river water in their laboratory. Professor Adriano Reis and his team sent us their photographs and their story.
Off the Oregon coast the first grid connected wave energy test site in the United States is open after fifteen years of work, with room for twenty machines and a promise to study how they sit with marine life. A Fremantle company is about to put its own wave machine in the sea in Spain.
For sixteen hours in late August, a herd of white lipped peccaries travelled by truck, by boat and finally on people's shoulders into Piedras Blancas National Park, where the forest has been missing them for eighteen years.
The bogong moth had its strongest return to the Alps since its numbers fell away in 2017, and this spring thousands of people will help find out where it goes.
In the far south of Mexico, the largest tropical forest reserve in the country is held together by the villages living inside it.
A weekend under the sky moves your body clock most of the way back to sunrise, and a review of 108 brain studies shows the stress circuits settling within minutes. Here is a place an hour and a half from Sydney to try it.
Australia's largest Japanese garden sits in a country town in the central west of New South Wales, and this weekend it is celebrating its cherry blossom.
Cronulla throws its spring party this weekend, a hundred market stalls and fifty food trucks from Friday night to Sunday, and on Sunday afternoon the painters set up their easels by the water, with the money raised going to Relay For Life.
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