The march of the larch: the Treeline is now encroaching on the arctic tundra
Covering 20 per cent of the Earth’s surface, the boreal forest is the largest living system, or ‘biome’, on land.…
Helen Macdonald could charm the birds out of the trees
When Helen Macdonald was a child, she had a way of calming herself during moments of stress: closing her eyes,…
Why fungi might solve the world’s problems
The biologist Merlin Sheldrake is an intriguing character. In a video promoting the publication of his book Entangled Life, which…
‘This pain, of all pains, cannot be palliated’: a doctor cares for her dying father
Dear Life arrives at a time when the public appetite for the personal accounts of medical insiders shows no sign…
