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With notable caveats, beavers can help wild trout thrive, writes Dr Rob Needham

From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel

There’s just a pig board between me and the lively grey seal barrelling towards me down the corridor. Tipping the scales at about 27kg, the pup – a young male called Bop It – already weighs as much as

B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

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