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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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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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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A court case has demanded an end to the breeding of fast-growing chickens – and the damage it causes the…
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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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Biodiversity is not just an asset from which humans gain. We have complex social relations with all non-human life.
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The entomologist on lush prehistoric forests and inescapable doom.
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.
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15 November 1913: Edith Nesbit looks out her window at late flowers in autumn.
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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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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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If the green movement wants to capture British hearts and minds, it should focus on animals, not abstract temperature rises.
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Bees can recognise number patterns, not just of objects found in nature but even of random symbols.
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Books by Thor Hanson and Emma Marris offer fascinating insights into how species are surviving and what we must do…
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Ed Yong’s fascinating new book on the complex behaviours of creatures uncovers a universe of unfathomable beauty.
By22 August 1959: The zoo is a penitentiary, a theatre, an alms house, a laboratory, a conference room, a microcosm.
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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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“Informational cascades” can be key in turning the tide against animal cruelty.
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The British director’s first documentary is the story of a trapped female told through social realism. But this time, the…
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