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Rarer than diamonds and more valuable than any other coloured jewels, a fine emerald represents natural beauty at its most beguiling. Jonathan Self journeys into the lustrous world of this revered gemstone

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Researchers studied stalagmites in Postojna Cave in Slovenia ...

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

LAWRENCE LEK. COURTESY THE ARTIST, MMCA, SADIE COLES ...