(Natural News) One of the most unique and biodiverse forests in the world is about to get clear-cut to make room for a massive new “wind park.” The Reinhardswald, located in the beautiful hilly region west of Göttingen in Germany, is widely recognized as the “treasure house of European forests.” Some people also call it […]

(Natural News) An update from the Health Ranger Ranch on Sunday, Jan 16th, 2022: The suspended net pot non-circulating hydroponic systems are producing amazing, astonishing results. We’ve been growing all sorts of crops, both in artificial light (LED grow lights) as well as natural sunlight. The result is monster lettuce, kale, etc., producing food with […]

(Natural News) The Pine Gulch Fire is now the second-largest wildfire in Colorado history after burning tens of thousands more acres overnight. The Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center said that the wildfire grew to more than 37,000 acres over the night on Tuesday, August 18, thanks to strong winds from a thunderstorm caused the fire to spread westward. The […]

(Natural News) It turns out, “talking trees” exist beyond science fiction, says actual science. The idea of trees talking – and humans understanding them – is a hot topic in environmental science. But for Suzanne Simard, a biologist and a pioneer of inter-plant communication research from the University of British Columbia, the idea that trees talk isn’t up for debate. In […]

(Natural News) Plants such as trees form symbiotic relationships with bacteria and fungi in the soil, with the latter helping capture nutrients and minerals from the environment. In turn, the tree shares some of the food that it produces using the energy of the sun with these bacteria and fungi. Now, a study published in the journal Nature […]

(Natural News) People may improve their well-being by exposing themselves to natural settings for extended periods. Such a beneficial lifestyle intervention falls under the green umbrella of nature therapy. A recently established field of medicine, nature therapy prescribes interventions based on increasing a patient’s exposure to natural environments like forests. Also called “green medicine,” its sub-disciplines […]

(Natural News) If you live near a forest and are worried about your blood pressure, you might want to consider taking a walk in the woods. The findings of a Japanese review attribute anti-hypertensive effects to Shinrin-yoku, the ancient practice of “forest bathing.” Forest bathing has recently caught the eye of preventive medicine researchers. Several […]

(Natural News) Being near and around nature will make anyone feel good – it’s not rocket science. But according to a report by Daily Mail, German scientists have now uncovered physical proof of the wonders that nature can do to a person’s psyche. The researchers conducted a study to assess stress-processing regions in the brain and […]

(Natural News) Between the natural order of things and the way that humans have seemingly taken over much of nature, lots of different animal species have already gone extinct. Why exactly this has happened isn’t entirely up to humans, but perhaps more could be done about what happens after an animal species does go extinct. […]

(Natural News) Northern England is seriously lacking in greenery. But the U.K. government plans to begin fixing this very soon with the start of a new forest planting megaproject. It’s one that will reportedly see 50 million new trees get planted in what some are calling “one of the least wooded parts of the country.” […]