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Read: A dispatch from the French AlpsNatasha Randall

Natasha Randall — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:00:49 +0000

There were blue tits nesting in the eaves above our front door this spring. The parent birds brought beakfuls of fat green worms and spindly flying bugs for the calling babies. We moved into a small gite, the lower floor of a chalet at the top of a small French mountain just a month [...]

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Read: Animal EdenZakia Carpenter-Hall

Zakia Carpenter-Hall — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:26:08 +0000

Animal Eden It was the year of the viral video, nature coming out of hiding. We were supposed to believe that within weeks, animal life had overwritten us with their joy and reckless abandon, as if instincts told them like radio waves signalling through the ether that humans are under quarantine and no [...]

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Read: Birds Under LockdownNicholas Royle

Nicholas Royle — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:26:59 +0000

On the last day before the hospitality sector in England locked down, my wife and I sat in a hotel garden in Cumbria watching the comings and goings at a bird feeder. The occasion was my birthday and the dinner had been booked for months. It just happened to fall on the last day [...]

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Read: The Other SideRachel Edwards

Rachel Edwards — Thu, 28 May 2020 15:39:56 +0000

Good news has been in short supply — save the reports of frontline heroism, community kindness and spectacular fundraising efforts — since the planet was struck by this meteorite of contagion, smashing into our world with catastrophic consequences. Our spikey sci-fi nemesis, the coronavirus COVID-19, has taken literally incalculable lives: our death-counting systems cannot keep [...]

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