Streams of consciousness

Over centuries, we’ve profoundly changed Scotland’s rivers – pacifying them and bringing them under our control. We’ve felled native woodlands to ‘tidy’ riverbanks, disconnected watercourses from thei

How to admire and protect our wonderful waterways in the UK

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

When the barrister Monica Feria-Tinta was a child, she couldn’t speak to her grandmother. “I, who grew up in Lima, never learned Quechua, so I never properly spoke to her,” she writes in her new book,

What’s happening in the world of game-fishing

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle