Deadly insects

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Chemicals and particles in our atmosphere can have a catastrophic impact on animals, plants and humans. But what are the causes of air pollution?

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

The arms race between antibiotics and bacteria

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