It is almost de rigueur in some metropolitan circles to yearn for a simpler life in the country. And even those whose ambitions do not stretch to pressing olives or breeding pigs hotfoot it to the ...

The following little drama takes place often when we visit our nearest organic food emporium. My wife and I wait in the checkout line. We watch the persons in front of us pay for their free-range eggs ...

In its most general sense, ecopsychology is a term that means what it implies. It is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human psychology concerning the non-human natural world. Humans ...

Our vocabulary has changed so much in recent decades that our grandparents would now wonder what we were talking about. In the 1980s we got stuck in a language of acronyms, full of yuppies, dinkies ...

About eight years ago, Glenn Albrecht began receiving frantic calls from residents of the Upper Hunter Valley, a 6,000-square-mile region in southeastern Australia. For generations the Upper Hunter ...

This release is also available in Chinese on EurekAlert! Chinese. New Rochelle, NY, August 30, 2010—Anger, depression, and helplessness are the main psychological responses being seen in response to ...

Hundreds of colleges and universities around the world are offering courses and even graduate degrees in ecopsychology and other forms of environmentally focused psychology. Ecopsychology examines the ...

SEATTLE — Scientists have warned for years that the effects of climate change will impact our health, even beyond weather-related disasters. In 2019, while the Natural Resources Defense Council ...