Berfrois

Stirring Moss

Stirring Moss

Dillenius identified several mosses and fungi, under the heading Cryptogams, denoting plants that reproduce via spores...

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Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...

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Drying Danube

Drying Danube

Europe’s prime rivers are running low after a brutal five-month drought...

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Pakistan’s Extreme Rainfall

Pakistan’s Extreme Rainfall

Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods in its history...

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260,000 feathers fill 15 freezers…

260,000 feathers fill 15 freezers…

A burst of whistles pierced the foggy morning in the Missouri Ozarks...

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Oiled

Oiled

I am obviously not travelling for coffee but for oil. Or rather: for art...

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The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The extinction of a species is a ghastly thing...

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Fired

Fired

We badly need a healthier relationship to combustion. Rather than erratic, runaway fires, we need regular, restorative ones, like we used to have...

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Wonderful Schrebergartens

Wonderful Schrebergartens

Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...

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Conservation of Conservation

Conservation of Conservation

The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue...

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Happy New Year, Coral!

Happy New Year, Coral!

Even though reefs got knocked down, they got back up again...

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Extraordinary Winter

Extraordinary Winter

Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...

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Forest Knowledge; Mountain Faith

Forest Knowledge; Mountain Faith

Deep inside the fractured forests that still ring the mountain, a hallowed sense of wonder persists...

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China’s REE Monopoly

China’s REE Monopoly

The most infamous mine in China is Bayan-Obo, the largest REE mine in the world. Even more infamous than the mine itself is the tailing pond it has produced...

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Now Quite Retired

Now Quite Retired

The soapwort gentian now. In an old pasture, now grown up to birches and other trees, followed the cow-paths to the old apple trees...

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