In search of feral apples and underground men
My village, just outside Barnsley on the A635, used to supply the workers for lots of coal mines: Darfield Main,…
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An unexpectedly vital part of the ecology
The disappearance of frogs and toads contributes to the appalling modern phenomenon that conservationists are now encountering everywhere: “trophic cascade”.
ByFinding a blood-filled mosquito doesn’t mean we can recreate Jurassic Park
Scientists have discovered a preserved mosquito like the one from that dinosaur film for the first time, but alas, dino-cloning…
ByThe birds who know how to improvise
Like a human infant, a young bird begins with an inherited, hard-wired gift for the song language of its species…
ByThe highest ground pulsates with life
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie and wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective.
ByFelicity Aston: “My life so far has been quite woven up with Antarctica”
Caroline Crampton talks to the polar explorer and climate scientist Felicity Aston, who in 2012 became the first woman to…
ByRewilding: Who are we to dictate what species live where?
The idea of “rewilding” the environment with depleted species seems sound. But, warns John Burnside, we mustn’t manipulate the world…
ByThe tortoise knows it’s what’s inside that counts
In our Nature column, poet Ruth Padel considers the tortoise - the animal which refuses to be read.
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