Surviving the big freeze

Toby explains how plants and trees set up natural defences and outlines what we can do to help

There’s only one thing in nature that conjures the crisp, sharp beauty of the shoulder seasons for Nadia Shaikh ...

Much of what we don’t understand about being human is simply in our heads. The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

ALL FISH COMMONLY found in UK ponds are cold-blooded, known as ectotherms. This means they rely on external heat sources to regulate their body temperature, as they can’t generate their own internal h