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A is for Abu Ghraib In 2004 a series of grainy photographs were leaked and shocked the world. They showed US soldiers smiling at the camera as they abused detainees [...]

Mitzi Jonelle Tan, 25 Growing up in the Philippines, I lived in fear of typhoons As a child, I was afraid of drowning in my own bedroom: flood-water from typhoons [...]

With eight arms, three hearts and a nervous system that allows it to taste through its skin, the octopus inhabits a sensory world that we may never fully understand. And [...]

Wistman's Wood: even the name of this ancient oak-tree grove on Dartmoor seems to conjure spirits. As someone who grew up nearby. I remember tales of hellhounds and spectral riders [...]

On the day I talked to the American ecologist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, politics was dominated by talk of growth-at-any-cost. In the UK, financial markets were faltering after Kwasi [...]

A butterfly was flitting around Richard Powers as he perched on a fallen tree trunk in the Great Smoky Mountains, the US's most visited national park. The insect, a swallowtail [...]

Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siege by Charles Foster Doubleday, 256pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] Charles Foster is perhaps best known for having spent six weeks living in a [...]

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud Hamish Hamilton, 240pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] Our culture has long conjured images of rural landscapes as places in which to soothe the psyche. Countless [...]

Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew Canongate, 384pp, 20 [pounds sterling] Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a rainforest. Anecdotes about our [...]

Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss Guardian Faber, 416pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] Flying is the aspect of birds' lives we envy most, writes Stephen Moss in the [...]

Kim Stanley Robinson is consulted by politicians and courted by Google and Facebook for his visions of a better future. But with time running out, what can a science fiction [...]

Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon by Heriberto Araujo Atlantic, 432pp, 20 [pounds sterling] It is easy, when reading Heriberto Araujo's [...]

Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles HarperNorth, 304pp, 14.99 [pounds sterling] If Little Women had been written from the perspective of Marmee March--and Marmee was [...]

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors, trs by Caroline Waight Pushkin Press, 240pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] Hygge's knitted socks and glowing [...]

How To Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill William Collins, 288pp, 20[pounds sterling] The author and biologist Tom Mustill writes that today's attempts [...]

The Great Plant-Based Con: Why Eating a Plants-Only Diet Won't Improve Your Health or Save the Planet by Jayne Buxton Little, Brown, 544pp, 25[pound sterling] That not all scientific facts [...]

The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing Pelican, 592pp, 22[pounds sterling] 'All at last return to the sea to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the [...]

The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans by David Bosco Oxford University Press, 256pp, 22.99 [pounds sterling] Like the world's oceans, the new book by the American [...]

Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales Doreen Cunningham Viraqo, 320pp, 18.99 [pounds sterling] As a child, I was enthralled by the idea that whales could sing. A cassette tape [...]

The Instant by Amy Uptrot Canongate, 192pp, 14.99 [pounds sterling] The romantic associations of moving abroad often pose a tension. Do we cast off old anchors so we might attach [...]

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence Vintage, 352pp, 20 [pounds sterling] There is a coldly utilitarian term in conservation circles known [...]

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid Thor Hanson Icon Books, 304pp, 20 [pounds sterling] Wild Souls Emma Marris Bloomsbury, 352pp, 28 [pounds sterling] Given the devastation that the climate emergency is [...]

Notes From DeepTime: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon Profile Books, 336pp, 20 [pounds sterling] To read Helen Gordon's account of Earth's geology is to [...]

On the day we meet in a central London hotel, David Wallace-Wells is dressed impeccably in a black suit jacket and crisp white shirt, open at the collar. He reminds [...]

At last December's UN Climate Change Conference in Poland, Greta Thunberg declared to delegates: 'You are not mature enough to tell it like it is--even that burden you leave to [...]

The article discusses the book "Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories that Surround them" by Derek Gow. The author explores the brutal history of wolves in Britain and raises questions about their future. The few remaining wolves in northern Portugal and Spain are now protected by law, but tensions in rural communities are rising as the wolf population rebounds in Europe. The book argues that the eradication of wolves from Britain has had negative ecological consequences and advocates for their reintroduction. [Extracted from the article]

The Nightingale Sam Lee Century, 240pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] Every so often, someone reopens a forgotten door into the natural world and magic ensues. In May 1924, the British cellist [...]

We no longer live in the Holocene!' These words, blurted out in a moment of frustration at a scientific conference in February 2000 by the Nobel-winning scientist Paul Crutzen, effectively [...]

It all began with a murder. In February 2018, a young woman on holiday from Hong Kong was found strangled and stuffed inside a suitcase near a metro station in [...]

Miranda Cox was asleep at her home in Kirkham, Lancashire, when the earthquake struck on the morning of 1 April 2011. Deep in the earth below, a nearby fracking site [...]

Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking Rachel Love Nuwer Scribe, 384pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling] When the Conservative Party dropped a pledge to ban antique ivory sales from its [...]

The world has arguably never been more in need of a hero. Someone to confront the vast existential threats posed by climate change; to unite global populations in the planet's [...]

"The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals" is a collection of anecdotes by farmer and writer Rosamund Young, focusing on her experiences with her flock of sheep on an organic farm. Young advocates for humane husbandry and expresses concern about the commercialization of nature. While the book does not delve into the agricultural context or the need to eat less meat, it serves as a heartening hymn to the British countryside and emphasizes the importance of not making assumptions about groups, including both animals and humans. [Extracted from the article]

'I suppose this is my Kevin Costner moment, isn't it: 'If you build it, they will come,'' said Chris Packham, gesturing to the crowd from the stage of the first [...]

John Vidal's book, Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature, explores the connection between human actions and the emergence and spread of diseases like Ebola, mpox, and SARS. Vidal draws on 20 years of journalistic exploration to highlight the ways in which activities such as animal agriculture, urbanization, deforestation, and soil erosion contribute to the rise of deadly diseases. The book emphasizes the interconnectedness of humans and the natural world and calls for repairing our broken relationship with nature to prevent future disease outbreaks. Vidal's final plea offers hope and urges readers to take action to protect planetary health. [Extracted from the article]

The Overstory Richard Powers William Heinemann, 502pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling] Global ecological collapse is the biggest story of our age. Broken cycles of air, water and earth are challenges against [...]

After enduring one of its coldest springs in decades, the UK is now experiencing an unusually balmy summer. The country's hottest May on record was followed in June by 16 [...]

There was a time when environmental icons were more likely to wear second-hand clothes than Tom Ford suits. Not so now. Henry Thoreau-inspired dreams of quiet retreats at Walden Pond, [...]

The first polar bear cub to be born in the UK for 25 years recently emerged from its mother's den at the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland. It has already [...]

The habit of 'speaking as a mother' came in for its fair share of criticism this summer. Andrea Leadsom's insinuation of superiority over Theresa May, her rival for the Tory [...]

Nicola Barker, 51, grew up in Cambridgeshire and South Africa and in 2003 was named in Granta s Best of Young British Novelists list. In her 12th novel, H(A)PPY, a [...]

History of Wolves Emily Fridlund Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 279pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] 'The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back [...]

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth Faber & Faber, 284pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] Paul Kingsnorth has been grieving. He has been grieving for the mass extinction of wildlife, for [...]

Alice in Westminster: the Political Life of Alice Bacon Rachel Reeves I.B. Tauris, 264pp. 20 £ When Rachel Reeves was elected as the MP for Leeds West in 2010, she [...]

Rachel Kelly describes herself as a people-pleaser and yet 12 years ago she fled her own Christmas party, crushed by a deep depression. Hours later, she returned to her home [...]

The article profiles American author David Wallace-Wells and examines his thoughts on climate change mitigation as explained in his book "The Uninhabitable Earth."

The article profiles climate change prevention activist Greta Thunberg. Topics include student walkouts to protest for climate change prevention action, Thunberg's diagnoses of Asperger syndrome and selective mutism, and a speech she gave at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Her family background is addressed.

The article discusses British naturalist and television host Chris Packham's call for Great Britain to take measures to halt the region's environmental damage due to farming and inadequate habitat protection as of 2018, and it mentions a document entitled "A People's Manifesto for Wildlife" which contains over 200 possible solutions to the environmental crisis in Great Britain. A potential ban on dredging for scallops is examined, along with the British pro-hunting community.

The article examines the development of several online networks dedicated to motherhood including Mumsnet, Mumslink, and Netmums in Great Britain. It discusses debates over parent held on forums and among members of each network. Particular attention is also give to video blogs where parenting and issues of motherhood are discussed. Comments from Netmums founder Siobhan Freegard are included.

An interview with novelist Nicola Barker about her book "H(A)PPY" is presented. She discusses the main character's impulse to give herself a narrative and the increased interest in dystopias among readers. Barker explains her use of typographical oddities, erratic fonts and changing colors in her book. She also comments on the argument that the novel has lost its cultural centrality.