Sea swims in England are all rocks, cliffs and shingle
In our Nature column, Sophie Elmhirst tips her toe along Dorset's Jurassic Coast to discover the reality of sea-swimming on…
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That we can see reverence for birds as old-fashioned or sentimental is merely another indicator of our own outmoded thinking…
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Enjoy the warm, bright days while they last.
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Diversity is a mark of richness and environmental health - and birds are its flag-bearers.
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You have to go back in time a long way to find pastoral writing that doesn't mourn the shrinking diversity…
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We depend on insects for our existence, yet we abuse them casually.
ByOur ash trees are dying, but don’t despair: catastrophes are natural events in the lives of trees
Dutch elm disease is a tragic thing to watch, but we shouldn't be too gloomy. Woody vegetation responds, adapts, regroups.…
ByHolloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards: Where does all this rhapsodising over badgers and briar get us?
Since Roger Deakin and Robert Macfarlane's success, it is now even possible to take an MA in “wild writing” at…
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