Stress is a major problem in the modern world. 【小题1】 It is common among office workers. Managing it is necessary for people in order to create a work-life balance. So, how can you go about removing stress through the ancient art of gardening?

Surround yourself with nature. Trees, birds and scent of the outdoors are great ways to help relax.【小题2】 So, in order to remove stress through gardening, you need to grow lots of plants.

Make it comfortable. 【小题3】 After all, what’s the point of making it beautiful if you can’t sit or watch your flowers grow afterwards? A good-quality set of garden furniture is the only way to make sure your garden is as comfortable as possible in order to remove your stress.

【小题4】To really appreciate garden space for what it is, you need to leave all of the stresses of modern life behind, which means keeping your phone indoors. Yes, it may be hard at first. But, after a while, it will begin to feel normal and even good. Sometimes not knowing what is happening in the outside world is the only way to enjoy the tranquility(宁静) of your garden.

Invite family and friends. Do you want to get the best way to truly remove stress through your gardening efforts? Share it with your family and friends. A good barbecue as we move into the warmer months is the best port of call.【小题5】After a while, your garden space should become a relaxation and stress-free zone.

A day in the life of a sun bear is what you might expect from the name：sunny.In its natural habitat，the sun bear spends over 80 percent of its active waking time in daylight.

But when disturbed by human activity，that changes dramatically.In areas where people are pushing into the sun bear’s habitat，the animals are spending 90 percent of their waking time after dark.Effectively，the threat of human presence is making the sun bear change into “the moon bear”.

Led by scientists at the University of California，Berkeley，the study found that human activity is driving scores of mammals to shift their activity from the daytime into the dark hours of the night.As many animals have already been forced out of their local habitats，others are attempting to avoid interaction with humans by separating themselves in time rather than in space.

For the work，the researchers examined the behaviors of 64 mammal species，including deer，tigers，boars，and，of course，sun bears.They observed increased nocturnal(夜间的) behavior in a large majority of them，with species that are naturally active during the day tending to shift their activity to after dark，and those that are naturally nocturnal becoming more so.The mammals affected ranged across body size，habitat type，region of the world，and diet.

Human activities of all sorts affect animals’ lives，including activities like hunting，agriculture and land development，harvesting local natural resources，even hiking or walking through wild areas.Sport hunting in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe drove antelopes to spend more of their active waking hours at night，restricting their access to water.Similarly，hikers in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California made coyotes(郊狼) more nocturnal，forcing them to find new preys(猎物) among traditionally nocturnal animals.

The researchers warn that profound shifts in the natural behavior patterns of so many species disturb dynamics that have evolved over generations，leading to a series of unknown effects on the entire ecosystem.

Armed with bowls and spoons, the youngsters at Berridale Public School headed into the school’s kitchen to bake biscuits. These treats were for endangered mountain pygmy possums (山袋貂). This small-sized animal lives only in the Australian regions of Victoria and New South Wales, and being active at night, is rarely seen in the wild. Up until the 1960s, when a small population of the possum was found in Victoria, the species was thought to be extinct.

Pygmy possums live on a diet of bogong moths (布冈夜蛾) and seeds. Yet in recent years, the once vast number of bogong moths that migrate each spring to the Snowy Mountains has severely fallen. Dr Linda Broome heads a team that has been tracking the region’s community of mountain pygmy possums for more than 30 years. “An estimated 330 adults were counted in the Cabramurra region in 2016, with 200 counted in 2018-19,” says Broome. The animals are also affected by extreme weather.

That’s when Broome started baking “bogong” biscuits, using a specially developed recipe that replicates (仿制) the nutritional value of the moths. But with vast quantities of the nutritional biscuits needed weekly to feed all the hungry mouths, she needed help.

The children at Berridale Public School wanted to know how they could help the region recover. The school, under the leadership of current principal Tracey Southam, contacted Broome. The kids were more than happy to put down their pencils and pick up spoons instead. It wasn’t long before all the primary school students across the Snowy Mountains region were busy baking the treats. Each bake-off took around 4.5 hours to produce sixty 200-gram bags of biscuits. Altogether, this resulted in an impressive 660 bags of bogong biscuits.

“While it is difficult to estimate the number of babies that have survived with the help of the biscuits, a field count in March resulted in 32 babies, which is a number similar to good seasons,” Broome says. Although the figures are still small, the results are pleasing and everyone is hopeful that their numbers can recover.