After revisions to the Oxford Junior Dictionary, a widely used children's dictionary, led to the removal of such nature words as "acorn," "bluebell" and "otter" in favor of such technology-centric ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

The loss of so many beetles, birds, and bacteria is desperately sad. But it’s far from the full extent of our loss. A new study analyzing how many terms authors use for the natural world shows that ...

Are we headed towards an “extinction of experience” of nature? Our connection to nature has declined dramatically, according to a widely reported 2025 study. Nature connectedness, the authors explain, ...

Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That's the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...