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Beyond a green carpet

Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.

  • Podcast

Woodland

In this episode, JC delves into the contradictions in our relationship with woodlands, and explores different ways we can think about them, if we are to use and protect them more wisely.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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How we bury our children

Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.

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  • Parasitic fungi (Nyctalis species) growing on decayed Russula fungi. Watercolour by R. Baker, 1889.
  • Ancient bacteria and fungi (a-d):
  • A group of fallen fungi (Pholiota squarrosa). Watercolour.
  • Three types of fungi, including a Cantharellus species. Watercolour.
  • A group of dung roundhead fungi (Stropharia semiglobata). Watercolour.
  • Three shelf fungi: fruiting bodies, one showing underside of cap. Watercolour.
  • Four types of fungi, including possible Agaricus and Russula species. Watercolour.
  • A group of fungi, possibly including Clavaria and Agaricus species. Watercolour.
  • A group of puff balls (Lycoperdon perlatum) and bracket fungi (Polyporus species). Watercolour.
  • Fungi: 16 species, including Jew's ear (Auricularia auricula), puffballs (Lycoperdon) and Agaricus and Boletus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, ca. 1827, after Prieur.
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