This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Annie Proulx is best known as an award-winning novelist. Her numerous awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1993 novel The Shipping News. Fen, Bog and Swamp, however, is Proulx’s attempt, as a non-scientist, …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. It’s World Whale Day this coming Sunday, a day to celebrate whales and draw attention to the numerous threats they face. The first Whale Day was in 1980 in Maui, Hawaii. It was set up to …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Humans have been telling stories for millennia. Many of the earliest stories likely centred on the natural world, including the birds and animals living alongside early humans. Some cultures’ creation myths certainly use animals to explain …
February is a good month to see our smallest goose, the brent, or brant. This diminutive species is about the same size as a mallard and much smaller than its greylag and pink-footed cousins. In the winter, the UK and Ireland host two distinct subspecies, or races. These are split between a number of traditional …