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Researchers from Japan have developed ‘Plant Doctor,’ an artificial intelligence-based tool that could revolutionise plant health monitoring. Is this the start of a more-than-human #wellness trend?

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Environmental News Network - Plant Doctor: An AI System That Watches Over Urban Trees Without Touching a Leaf

A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.

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April 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Trees suffer from loneliness too. Trees are social beings, interacting with and relying on their environment in a variety of ways. They lean on underground fungal networks to help them exchange nutrients and water.

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This app will make you literally touch grass before you can doomscroll on TikTok

The app requires users to take a photo of literal grass before unlocking other apps. Call it kryptonite for the chronically online?

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April 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM

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Touch Grass app works by allowing users to select their most distracting apps, then blocking said apps by default until the user ventures outside to touch real grass.

www.fastcompany.com/91284597/tou...

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This app will make you literally touch grass before you can doomscroll on TikTok

The app requires users to take a photo of literal grass before unlocking other apps. Call it kryptonite for the chronically online?

www.fastcompany.com

April 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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A Field Guide that can help us move towards the practice of a More-Than-Human Politics, by Anab Jain

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Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics - Superflux

A Field Guide that can help us move towards the practice of a More-Than-Human Politics, by Anab Jain Photograph courtesy of weaponsandwarfare.com [This is an edited transcript of Anab’s talk ‘On Criti...

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March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)

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GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)

GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat) [Thwaites, Thomas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human (one man's journey to leave humanity behind and become like a goat)

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March 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM

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City of Portland has implemented a comprehensive "Tree Code" to protect its urban canopy:

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Portland's Strict Tree Code

YouTube video by Willamette Week

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March 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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What Smuts saw one day in Africa while watching a troop of some 30 baboons is one of the more mysterious baboon tales ever.

www.npr.org/2009/12/22/1...

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Holy Baboon! A 'Mystical' Moment In Africa

A biologist reflects on an awe-inspiring experience in Africa, when a group of baboons united in some kind of amazing "mystical" moment.

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March 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Can AI help humans understand animals and reconnect with nature? A nonprofit research lab thinks so.

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Can AI help humans understand animals and reconnect with nature? A nonprofit research lab thinks so

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists. The Earth Species Project hopes to decode other creatures’ communications with its pioneering artificial intellige...

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March 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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What started as a thought experiment a few decades ago has now emerged into a global movement advocating for the political representation of Nature.

www.resurgence.org/magazine/art...

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The Planetary Democrats

Anton Rüpke introduces a new movement that is campaigning to give the planet a legitimate voice in European democracy

www.resurgence.org

March 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM

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Animal Club raises following questions: How will club spaces look like in an interspecies future?

hybridspacelab.net/project/anim...

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Animal Club | Hybrid Space Lab

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March 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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Plant music is a way of monitoring electrical signals of plants, graphs them as a wave and translates the wave into pitch.

plantwave.com/en-pt

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PlantWave

Listen to plant music with PlantWave! Tune into nature and hear plants make music.

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March 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Mushroom Burial Suit Creates Life After Death

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Mushroom Burial Suit Creates Life After Death

The Mushroom Burial Suit is designed to give our dead bodies new life by breaking them down and nourishing the soil.

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March 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Watch a Pianist Play an Ethereal Duet With Slime Mold: it’s a strange, alien effect, not unlike hearing a slightly distorted echo of your voice after you shout into a canyon.

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Watch a Pianist Play an Ethereal Duet With Slime Mold

It’s a strange, alien effect, not unlike hearing a slightly distorted echo of your voice after you shout into a canyon.

www.wired.com

March 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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The opening mushroom sequence spells out in mushroom-letters multiple digital-fungal organisms for Björk's 2023 album collab with @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @bjork.bsky.social

www.fossora.com/atopos

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fossora | Björk

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March 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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The UK government appointed Ruth Davis as the country's first Special Representative for Nature in 2024. @ruthdavis.bsky.social

www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/10/21/r...

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Ruth Davis has been appointed the first UK’s Special Representative for Nature - Water Magazine

UK government appoints Ruth Davis, one of the country's leading environmental policy experts, as the first Special Representative for Nature.

www.watermagazine.co.uk

March 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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Over time, I developed a sense of belonging to their [baboon] community, and my subjective identity seemed to merge with theirs. This experience expanded my sense of the possible in interspecies relations.

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(PDF) Encounters with Animal Minds

PDF | In this article I draw on personal experience to explore the kinds of relationships that can develop between human and nonhuman animals. The first... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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March 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Wolves (& dog-human hybrids) play pivotal roles in many stories as markers of transience between the human and natural worlds. They also appear almost always aligned with themes of death, duty, sacrifice and regeneration.

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Miyazaki’s Wolves

Fall break at Middlebury College means time to catch up on work, escape to Cape Cod, and go leaf “peeping” in beautiful Vermont. It also means more time to hide away watching haunting a…

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March 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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In Chinese mythology, Fuxi along with his sister and wife Nuwa, created humanity.

Snake-human hybrids are a common mythology more-than-human motif especially in creation myths and immortality (skin shedding).

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Fuxi - Wikipedia

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March 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Believed to come from the Himalayas, the Kinnara watch over the well-being of humans in times of trouble or danger.

Bird-human (often women) hybrids are a common mythology more-than-human motif.

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Kinnara - Wikipedia

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March 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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The Birdsong Society believes that birdsong is not only a powerful force for positive change but also has the potential to inspire people to live more sustainably and with greater appreciation.

www.thebirdsongproject.com

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