The asian palm civet

It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery. Lucien de Guise finds out what Coalport brought to the tableware

Exciting ways to get away from it all

From ice cream to underwear and explosives, plants are remarkably integral to much of the manmade world, as a new book reveals. Harry Pearson investigates

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An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey

Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth