I was on holiday in a French farmhouse with vineyards all around when the fire came for me
As my family and I abandoned our car and ran to safety through a burning wood, I felt as if…
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IPCC climate report: the arrival of the natural disaster movie age?
As the new UN report coincides with a summer of fires and floods, the films we grew up with might yet…
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How metal detecting became my escape from the monotony of lockdown
I bought my son a metal detector for his fourth birthday. “A walking stick?” he asked. “No, no darling. This is…
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How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain
In the face of a divisive new policing bill which could criminalise trespass and restrict peaceful protest, the right to…
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Summer is the season of longing
I think of the summer swifts, those tiny intercontinental airships dreaming of warmer places; longing, like us, to take flight.
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Mya-Rose Craig: the “Birdgirl” reimagining Britain’s countryside
The British-Bangladeshi teen on youth activists, COP26 and the battle for a more inclusive vision of nature.
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The seeming nothingness of fog speaks to the mystery in all things
As busy as this world seems, there is more of nothing in it than we usually care to notice.
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Weeds are perceived as gatecrashers – but what can they do when left to their own devices?
Though I used to wrench “self-seeding” plants out of my garden, I am learning to see them in a new…
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