We must learn from those who are closest to land and sea: indigenous people
At Cop26, delegates from these groups were frank and articulate – and shamefully overlooked.
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In the wake of a locked-down year, the seasons feel out of kilter
I reacquaint myself with the patterns and shades of the trees in my neighbourhood, before they bare their branches for…
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IUCN’s Al Mubarak: the conservation leader who says we can work with oil majors
While campaigners call for a ban on fossil fuel sponsorship, the head of the planet's biggest nature network takes a…
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To be alone in Norway’s highlands is to remember what it is to be human
On the high tundra, everything is different in deep winter – particularly the thick carpet of uninterrupted white snow.
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There is unfathomable hope in building a garden in the face of death
Drawn in by its yellow window frames and low shrubs, Derek Jarman's former home, Prospect Cottage, is something of a…
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Those who came before us knew how plants could reveal a more vibrant reality
The hallucinogenic Datura are a natural means to wisdom. Why must we ban plants like them?
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How do you preserve the history of something that lives and dies each season?
After visiting Kew, Dixter and Charleston, great gardens that reflect the past, I was intrigued to stand in one of…
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Unlike most of its kind, the short-eared owl comes to us in the daytime – but remains otherworldly
As I was held in its eerie gaze, I saw an alien intelligence, a mind that was totally other.
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