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10 days ago

‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year

Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growing

What does a landscape…

11 days ago

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure

Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It…

13 days ago

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

If you find it difficult to think of a river as ali…

3 months ago

Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell

Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean…

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