Children today are more likely to report symptoms of attention disorders and depression, and more likely to be medicated for those problems than at any time in human history, according author Richard ...

To stave off fear of nature, it helps to get ’em while they’re young. Photo by Yuri Arcurs via Alamy. Victoria-based Hakai Magazine, part of the Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute family, is an ...

Even the words we use to express our connection to nature are dwindling as the demands of modern life isolate us from the non-human world, according to a new study by psychologist Miles Richardson of ...

While experts worry about the ills of the internet age and the health problems linked to kids' hours of screen time, Richard Louv says there is an antidote - and it's free. Louv is the author of Last ...

There are two basic views about human nature. The first is that there is no such thing, because humans are limitlessly pliable creatures in whom the worst and the best traits coexist and are entirely ...

Humans are unlike any other species on Earth. But it wasn't always that way, says Canadian anthropologist and filmmaker Niobe Thompson. Planet Earth, he says, was once like the fictional Middle Earth ...