Summer is in full swing, and that means we are spending more time keeping up and enjoying our backyards than at any other time of the year. Backyarding—the trend to use the backyard for everything from tele-working to working out to relaxing—has a different purpose for each person. Identifying your backyard’s role in your family’s […]
New research sheds light on the specific impact that spending time in nature has on our microbiome. Microbiome is the genetic material of all the microbes – bacteria, fungi and viruses – that live inside and on the human body. Australian scientists surveyed human skin and nasal microbiota in subjects that were exposed to air, […]