The forgotten animals

The glaciers of the Alps are receding, retreating, even collapsing. Why is it happening? What is the impact on those who love the mountains? And can it be stopped?

What the scientists are saying… Falling puffin numbers ...

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

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