I have relinquished control of my garden – and what it has done is beautiful
I would have preferred the poppies to have returned rather than the tree spinach, but the pink hollyhocks are a…
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Summer reflection: the silence of the seabirds
In my lifetime, seabirds have symbolised one thing above all: pollution.
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In northern Italy, the sound of the swirling river suffuses even my hotel room
The strangely musical waterway tells a story of South Tyrol's troubled history.
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Be your own florist – it’s simple and sustainable
Maintaining a few scruffy flower beds banishes the need for shop-bought bouquets.
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Is Boris Johnson ditching nature to save his skin?
The Prime Minister appears to be giving in to small-government Tories who want him to ditch policies aimed at protecting…
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Every day the natural world reveals its intelligence, but humans choose to ignore it
From the emergent order of swarming bees to how gorillas manage grief, species are constantly responding to their environments.
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A shadow hangs over this year’s Chelsea Flower Show – our climate crisis
Chelsea was always ecologically problematic, but it feels impossible now to view it simply as a pretty flower show.
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Australia’s election campaign has failed its Great Barrier Reef
By failing to prioritise climate change, the country’s leading political parties are spelling a death sentence for its most famous…
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