This study examines whether conducting lessons in natural outdoor environments, rather than traditional classrooms, influences students’ conceptual learning. Results show that younger students benefited cognitively from outdoor lessons, while older students performed better indoors, although both groups perceived natural settings as more restorative, indicating that the physical environment can shape learning outcomes.

This study uses a phenomenological approach to examine how outdoor education shapes prospective teachers’ learning and teaching processes. Findings indicate that it enhances experiential learning, social and emotional skills, and motivation to use outdoor methods, supporting its integration into teacher education programmes.

The authors highlight that while urban gardens and green roofs provide crucial benefits like air filtration and cooling, many commonly planted species like birch trees and grasses produce high amounts of allergenic pollen that affects up to 40% of Europeans

This review examines bioaerosols (airborne particles from biological sources like plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and viruses) and their relationship to asthma, highlighting that different bioaerosols affect asthma through various pathways and individual susceptibility varies significantly. The article emphasizes that while exposure to certain bioaerosols like allergens, mold, and pathogenic viruses can trigger asthma symptoms and exacerbations, some early-life exposures to diverse microbial communities may actually provide protective effects against asthma development .

This article examines 42,291 renewable energy investment deals across OECD countries from 2004 to 2022, revealing highly international capital flows. Results show that $US 45.4B annually (45%) is invested across borders, with varying degrees between countries. Further, renewable energy investments increasingly mirror general foreign direct investment (89% correlation), indicating financial mainstreaming, which can contribute to rapid deployment.

This review explores how opportunities for play in public spaces are essential for children’s health and development, with growing research highlighting the links between outdoor play, learning, and the design of playful urban environments.

This study finds that optimal placement of long-duration energy storage in renewable-heavy power systems depends on multiple interacting factors—such as generation, demand, storage, and transmission—and cannot be determined by any single metric, with siting decisions having system-wide effects.

The researchers found that patients with poorly controlled severe asthma generated significantly higher CO2 emissions (5.2% to 23.0% more) due to increased hospitalizations and overuse of rescue inhalers, particularly short-acting bronchodilators. However, when patients were referred to specialist asthma care, their carbon emissions decreased by 12.1% to 23.9%, demonstrating that better asthma management not only improves patient health but also reduces environmental impact

This review examines how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IOT) improve thermal efficiency, enable real-time system monitoring, and support predictive maintenance across solar, wind, geothermal, and bioenergy applications.

This study investigated how host genetics and early-life environmental exposures influence the infant gut microbiota during the first year of life and its association with childhood asthma and allergic diseases by age 5 years. The researchers found that specific gut microbial changes and network clusters were associated with increased or decreased risk of asthma, wheeze, atopic dermatitis, and food/inhalant sensitization, with some associations being sex-specific