Eye opener

hey say that Wales is home to more sheep than people, the UK has more potholes than miles of road, and at any given time a third of all French workers are on strike. But should you believe them? In my

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

Travels in mountain country where nations have little meaning

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

Eben Muse is the British Mountaineering Council’s policy and campaigns officer and an ambassador for the Campaign for National Parks. Fresh from a mass swim trespass at Kinder Reservoir, he argues that the nation’s reservoirs should be open for public enjoyment

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