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After a long, arduous climb, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally reached the top of Jezero Crater’s rim. It took the rover three and a half months to vertically ascend 500 metres (1,640ft), at times

Once you’ve walked one long-distance trail, you’re likely to be left wanting more. Matt Jones certainly was, so taking inspiration from our friends across the Atlantic, he added the Pennine Way and the Cape Wrath Trail to the Cambrian Way. The result was Britain’s very own ‘Triple Crown’. Fancy it?

I’M BY NO means an experienced contest aquascaper, with this being my third time entering the IAPLC (International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest) after first getting into aquascaping 9 years ago (and

The best rare birds seen all around Britain in December

Once all farmers worked their land organically – before such synthetic inputs as pesticides and antibiotics existed. The organic movement arose in the 20th century as a reaction to the growing industr

Many National Trails will claim to offer a variety of landscapes. But with forest, moorland, ridges, beaches, cliffs and one incredibly famous little mountain, the Cleveland Way is quietly chuckling at all of them. Country Walking walked the whole thing to prove it.