The spectacle of runaway horses in London was eerily poignant
For a brief moment, animals that are otherwise trapped in lives of ceremony and discipline were free.
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Arik Kershenbaum Q&A: “I’m happiest in a hammock, being woken by gibbon song”
The zoologist on emigrating to the UK, what the Civil War cost America, and the serenity of a world before…
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The NS Poem: Birds of the Arctic
A new poem by Simon Armitage.
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The American XL Bully is a monster created by the internet
The industry driving people to breed the dog is a type of Ponzi scheme, though one that comes with appalling…
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Why I loved my dog
Animals have so much to teach us.
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Jess de Boer’s Q&A: “Our bees are tough beasties to work with”
The farmer on the Kenyan political activist Wangari Maathai, SAS Rogue Heroes and why we need ego-less politicians.
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Swifts, the universe and everything
Mark Cocker’s ode to a remarkable species makes a powerful case for the value of awe in a time of…
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This England: Getting it in the neck
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Charles Burrell and Isabella Tree on the rewilding wars
The married aristocrats have created a haven on their 3,500-acre Knepp estate – but find themselves at the centre of…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Why “franken-chicken” shouldn’t be on the menu for the coronation
A court case has demanded an end to the breeding of fast-growing chickens – and the damage it causes the…
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Consider the noble octopus
The Canary Islands will soon host the world’s first industrial octopus farm. But there is no humane way to slaughter…
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The eradication of species
Biodiversity is not just an asset from which humans gain. We have complex social relations with all non-human life.
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George McGavin Q&A: “All species live on the knife-edge of survival”
The entomologist on lush prehistoric forests and inescapable doom.
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The Year of the Cat: feline fellowship and the meaning of life
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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Fantastic beasts and how to save them
Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.
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From the NS archive: The November garden
15 November 1913: Edith Nesbit looks out her window at late flowers in autumn.
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Why would anyone lobby on behalf of dangerous dogs?
On the one hand you have the right of five-year-olds not to be disfigured; on the other, the right of…
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The natural world is vanishing before it has even reached our eyes
From resentful crows to narwhal tusks, we understand only a fraction of the Earth’s beauty. And now we risk losing…
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Save the planet by saving the pandas
If the green movement wants to capture British hearts and minds, it should focus on animals, not abstract temperature rises.
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