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Meadows in May

The spirit of May is infectious. Trees spill with fresh green leaves, mammal cubs wobble from dens with maiden sight, and all the while the birds continue to trill and chatter. It’s a month of floral evolution too, and a time when many of our meadows begin to reveal their first splashes of colour – […]

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Top 10 Royal gardens

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, we visit gorgeous green spaces with connections to the monarchy

Crake expectations

How could a farmland bird with an extraordinary call, which was once as familiar as the blackbird, have been driven from all but the outer fringes of the British Isles? James Fair investigates the case of the vanishing corncrake

Doctor nature

TV doctor Amir Khan has recently become president of the RSPB, but what does the role entail? Annabel Ross meets him to find out – and discovers how closely our health is related to time spent in nature

Art of a dale

The trees, lanes and green pastures of Wensleydale have inspired Yorkshire artist Simon Palmer for 40 years. Susie White talks to the watercolourist about his spiritual connection with the landscape

Rainforests on our doorstep

When we think of rainforests, the Amazon or the Congo spring to mind, but Britain has its own share, full of wild character, thronging with life and in desperate need of protection. Guy Shrubsole tells the story of these secret forgotten habitats