Beavering

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11 minutes

Spring is approaching. The beavers have left a single stick about a meter long across the pond outlet, marking their intentions. “No mud yet, but we a...

How Wild Is Wild?

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12 minutes

Potter Stewart, a former Justice of the US Supreme Court, famously said of hard-core pornography that it was hard to define but he knew it when he saw...

Encountering Ghost Species

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5 minutes

On Lord Howe Island, 600 kilometres off of Australia’s east coast, you can snorkel the world’s southernmost coral reef, clamber up a basalt mountain t...

Earthworm

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1 minute

Sumana Roy’s “Earthworm” is a tribute to the worms beneath our feet, serving as a reminder of the wondrous power and fragility in the everyday....

The Beast of the Forest

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15 minutes

“Puzzling are the ways of wild animals,” wrote James Stevenson-Hamilton. And even more puzzling, surely, are the ways of humans, especially in their e...