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How to admire and protect our wonderful waterways in the UK

Climate change is shifting the balance of vineyard biodiversity, creating new challenges for wine-growers

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

With a ‘butterfly emergency’ in the UK, conservationists are gearing up for this year’s Big Butterfly Count. But what has happened to these insects? And can they – on a wing and a prayer – ever bounce back?

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world