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'The prescription is nature': How satellites can show us the healing effects of nature

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Kathy Willis , professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford , shows how satellite images reveal the negative effect that the erosion of green spaces is having on the mental wellbeing of the population.

Willis explores the tools we use to make these discoveries, and reveals the untapped power of nature in combating common health problems.

Willis : Population biobanks are, as their name suggests, collated samples of biological material and records of individuals from across a population.

Katherine Willis CBE is professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford .

She is also a Crossbench Peer in the U.K. government's House of Lords .

In 2015 , she was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal for public communication of science from the Royal Society .

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VR Score

87

Informative language

96

Neutral language

8

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

70

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not offensive

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not hateful

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long-living