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• Butterflies are Flowers of the Air Links to Butterfly sites
  
• Nature in Your Backyard Support quality nature content on the Web...here's how you can support this Web site and Sunshine Newsletter.
  
• Tools and Tributes to Naturalists: Those who love and care for habitat, wildlife and all life Lovers of the earth need information, tools, community and encouragement to continue their endless work.
  
• Nature as Important as Nurture in Developing Ability for Flexible Self-Control
  
• Sustainability in Education: Second Nature
  
• Our Other Kids We are all connected...and attitude can make life young at heart!
  
• ADD symptoms are relived by time in nature! "Green": an alternative way to relieve ADD symptoms that has virtually no side effects or costs.
  
• Green Scenes can help children endure stresses A room with a view, a green one, can help protect children against stress
  
• Intriguing - frozen methand in Santa Monica Basin Undersea discoveries in Santa Monica Basin indicate frozen methane ecosystem -- in sunny SoCal? Wow!
  
• Crime is reduced by greenery In urban settings even small patches of green are oases from harsh surroundings. The removal of green where so little exists is keenly felt.
  
• Planet Green by Discovery Brings Green Storytelling to Families Planet Green by Discovery Communiations launches eco-tainment to educate and entertain about the earth's ecosystems
  
• Nature's Benefits for Children Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to play, recreation and culture. Play is crucial for many aspects of children’s development,
  
• Careers in Natural Sciences and Conservation Want a thriving outdoor career? The conservation field needs an inflow of diverse, younger professionals.
  
• Nature videos for education and fun? Our choices in edutainment and entertainment matter to our children.
  
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder It's wonderful to discover a book as thoughtful and thorough as this one. Richard Louv has built on his own personal experience of life and parenting with his professional knowledge and vision.
  
• Leadership in Conservation and the Environment Leadership programs in Conservation and the Environment
  
• Children and Nature We can reconnect children to nature and develop in them a passion for conserving our parks, refuges, and wildlife.
  
• GEOSET Science, Engineering and Technology Online Interactive Media for Learning As the world becomes more of a global community, it is critical that children everywhere have access to the same high quality of information so that they can work together to solve some of the very serious problems facing us all.
  
• Encyclopedia of Life Assembles an Online Compendiumn of Earth's Species & Processes The Encyclopedia of Life was started by E.O. Wilson with a goal of documenting all the biodiversity on life and making the information available to professionals and the public.
  
• Birds Signal Environmental Vitality to Scientists Beak deformities in multiple bird species with broad geographic distribution suggests that avian keratin disorder is spreading and may be an indication of underlying environmental health problems.