I didn’t hold out much hope for my garden’s sole tree, but then the sweet plums came
Like the long-overdue heat, that first mouthful of fruit was a summer I’d not prepared for – I just wanted more.
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The age of the megafire
Why the forest fires raging across Europe, North America and Australia are a sign of the world to come.
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I was on holiday in a French farmhouse with vineyards all around when the fire came for me
As my family and I abandoned our car and ran to safety through a burning wood, I felt as if…
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IPCC climate report: the arrival of the natural disaster movie age?
As the new UN report coincides with a summer of fires and floods, the films we grew up with might yet…
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How metal detecting became my escape from the monotony of lockdown
I bought my son a metal detector for his fourth birthday. “A walking stick?” he asked. “No, no darling. This is…
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How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain
In the face of a divisive new policing bill which could criminalise trespass and restrict peaceful protest, the right to…
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Summer is the season of longing
I think of the summer swifts, those tiny intercontinental airships dreaming of warmer places; longing, like us, to take flight.
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Mya-Rose Craig: the “Birdgirl” reimagining Britain’s countryside
The British-Bangladeshi teen on youth activists, COP26 and the battle for a more inclusive vision of nature.
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