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• ‘We look after our neighbors’: how mutual-aid groups are filling the gaps after Hurricane Helene

  06-10-2024 14:00
  
  The federal government, state governments and larger non-profits have had a slower – and, say some residents, insufficient – responseThe first thing members of the Pansy Collective, based in Asheville, North Carolina, did following the start of Hurricane Helene was reach out to each other, ensuring that everyone was OK, and helping people who needed to evacuate. As soon as they were able to get down from the Blue Ridge Mountains, where Asheville is nestled, they drove more than 200 m
  
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• ‘Nature is free, and the best kind of medicine’: is this the perfect walk for improving mental health?

  06-10-2024 11:00
  Research suggests that our minds benefit from our encounters with aspects of nature – be it cold water and calming scents, or vivid colours and certain types of landscape – and Kielderhead ticks all the boxesThere’s an old saying that the perfect walk has “something to see, somewhere to pee, and somewhere to get a cup of tea”. While those things do indeed make for a respectable hike, scientists have discovered that aspects of nature will turn a good walk into a grea
  
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• Wanted: expedition botanist to follow in Darwin’s footsteps and look for plants

  06-10-2024 07:00
  
  If you have a sense of adventure and know your squills from your spurges, Cambridge University Botanic Garden may have the job for youWith the promise of travel, adventure and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, applications have opened for what might be the best job in the natural world: an expedition botanist to go on plant-collecting adventures for Cambridge University Botanic Garden.It is understood to be the first time such a post has been offered by a British botanic g
  
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