Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Chasing spring
Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.
- Article
Why we need to decolonise the skies
Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
- Books
Ecology and conservation / M. J. Reiss and J. L. Chapman.
Reiss, Michael.Date: 1994- Books
How do you want to live? : a report on the human habitat; presented in January 1972 to the Secretary of State for the Environment.
Date: 1972- Ephemera
- Online
Are your meals costing the Earth? : Are they turning forest into desert? Threatening wildlife habitats? Poisoning the environment? / The Vegan Society ; illustrated by Juliet Breese.
Vegan Society.Date: [1992?]- Pictures
The brain, sectioned vertically; showing the sites of some phrenological faculties. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
Date: 1901Reference: 28020i- Books
Potential long-term ecological impact of genetically modified organisms : a survey of literature, guidelines and legislation / Pieter van der Meer.
Meer, Pieter van der.Date: 1993