The wood may not yet be silent, but its birds are far quieter
The lesser redpoll population has fallen to one tenth of what it was more than 50 years ago, when as…
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After a season of little contact, my garden and I are in conversation again
In those first hopeful and clear-skied days of February I felt a rush of affection for my scruffy little plot.
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Tom Holland: why climate politics needs more hedgehogs
As an environmental culture war looms, the historian advocates for Edmund Burke’s politics of the particular.
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WWF’s decision to fundraise via NFTs puts capitalism above conservation
There’s no such thing as a green NFT.
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Why we should not blindly rush back to the way of life we consider “normal”
A marvellous new book about the Isle of Mull brought to my attention the opportunities for ecological reflection that lockdown…
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Year of the Tiger: why the big cat’s return holds hope for humanity
Efforts to protect the solitary predators show conservationists how much they can achieve by working together.
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Confined to my house, I am giddy with excitement for the world beyond it
I’ve spent the endless hours of self-isolation gazing at the paperwhites on my mantlepiece, watching their silhouettes shift and grow…
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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