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But new hotels, restaurants and beach bars are also taking their toll on nature. Rising sea level due to climate change is further complicating the situation. In Velipoja, a protected area close to ...

Pasijah and her family, meanwhile, have turned to nature. She has planted some 15,000 mangrove trees a year over the past two decades. Every day, she paddles out in a boat made from a blue plastic ...

How relatedness-to-nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. A new analysis is based on survey results from two major Japanese metropolitan areas.