By Jim Leffman & Rom Preston-Ellis Young kids have fewer emotional problems if they grow up around trees, forests or parks, a new study claims. Researchers found that children aged between two and five who were born within three quarters of a mile from green spaces were less likely to suffer from anxiety. The team from North Carolina found that kids of that age were also less depressed and the results held even after factoring in the child’s sex, parent education, age at birth, and neighbourhood socioeconomic vulnerability. Dr Nissa Towe-Goodman, a researcher from the Frank Porter Graham Child…
