“one metre of peat is a millennium of rain”

→ After her sixth flood in three decades, Heather Shepherd has stopped trying to keep the River Severn out of her Shropshire home. “I just say, come on in,” she tells Big Issue. “Sit down, and let me

IT began as an unremarkable day. Leaves falling into mud on the riverbank, the sun shy behind ink splodged clouds. Jays screeching in the oakwood. I stopped. Mammal tracks drew my eyes. I knelt. These

HIS love affair with nature and being on the water began as a young boy when he used to kayak down the River Spey – Scotland’s second-longest river – with his dad. So, it comes as no surprise that out

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

A little more than five years ago, I took up early morning swimming. I lived in Austin which is in the center of Texas. In the centre of Austin, there is a large park; in the centre of the large park

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