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

Can we really bring back long-extinct animals, or are scientists just making close copies?

Pink and purple plants are colonising new spots

Colossal has a shopping list of species its wants to de-extinct

Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney tackle the ecological crisis

Why did only two sunflowers germinate? Do I leave figs on my tree? Read on…