Culture
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Earth science and climate
A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
6 minutes
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Animals and humans
Laura fights to protect the magnificence of wild horses running free
6 minutes
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Biology
Flicker through the eclectic beauty and biological diversity of 2,400 leaves
3 minutes
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Deep time
The Rift
Splitting the African continent, it is the only place where our human story can be read continuously from the very start
Tristan McConnell
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Art
At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light
6 minutes
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The environment
Our contaminated future
In Fukushima, communities are adapting to life in a time of permanent pollution: a glimpse of what’s to come for us all
Maxime Polleri
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Nature and landscape
Home and the birdsong
In the dark, sylvan villages of medieval England, people named places after the birds that filled the night with music
Michael J Warren
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Technology and the self
One woman prepares for the risky solitude of Georgia O’Keeffe’s American West
8 minutes
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Biology
A touch of moss
Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself
Nikita Arora
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The environment
Here’s to the aquapolis
Unkempt, beguiling and lacking conventional geometry, wetlands bring a roguish, raffish wildness to the city
Tom Blass
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Subcultures
Living off-grid on a remote Scottish island is a mix of rejection and acceptance
13 minutes
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Philosophy of religion
A God beyond logic
The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways
Adam R Shapiro
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Ecology and environmental sciences
To renew Yosemite, California should embrace a once-outlawed Indigenous practice
6 minutes
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Architecture
Why a sculptor pivoted from gallery installations to big-box stores design
9 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
For Ruskin, words couldn’t capture nature’s palette. So here it is in black and white
6 minutes
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Nature and landscape
Nature does not care
Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead of the sharp-eyed realism the natural world deserves
Richard Smyth
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Pyrocene Park
Fire is a planetary feature, not a biotic bug. What can we learn from Yosemite’s experiment to restore natural fire?
Stephen J Pyne
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Travel
Dashing to nowhere
D H Lawrence’s restless travels in Sardinia were a quest for self-knowledge. The real island slipped beneath his notice
William Atkins
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Beauty and aesthetics
Why Caspar David Friedrich pits nature’s grandeur against the humble human
7 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Life in one of Canada’s northernmost villages, where the land is sinking into the sea
24 minutes
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Nature and landscape
Honouring the caribou, in dreams and memories from an Innu singer-songwriter
5 minutes
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Biology
The astonishing resonances between patterns in nature, microscopic and cosmic
5 minutes
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Nature and landscape
An afternoon with hobbyist diamond miners in Arkansas is a thing of rare beauty
16 minutes
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Architecture
Acoustic naturalism
Our movies and offices are engineered to sound natural based on what rang false in the theatres of 18th-century Paris
Joseph L Clarke