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Litter on our streets, plastics in our seas, overflowing landfill, fatbergs... Do you know where your rubbish ends up?

We are...

This is the story of a landmark RSPB project to restore over 3,000 hectares of the Lake District, from the tiniest wildflowers up...

I look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat with fecundity. Replete with contentment.

Contentment is a transmissible condition....

"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens.
To love and loathe the fox is a British...

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'

The oak is our most...

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."

Skylarks are the heralds of our...

From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great...

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them...

Discover the lost art of reading nature's own signposts with this beautiful tenth anniversary edition of The Natural...

This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its...

From the author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Female Brain comes this eagerly awaited follow-up.

Did you...

The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

Pioneering study of the science behind quantum computing and what the new quantum reality will mean for mankind

The quantum...

What really goes on in the long grass?

Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from...

A... , McFadden...

The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life

Life is the most...

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...

How does the fact that it gets dark at night...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The...

Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books...

As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Veliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters...

An enchanting and wildly entertaining tour of the Solar System

Have you ever dreamt of being an astronaut, travelling through...

Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to...

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains...

Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to...

50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the...

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the...

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food

Why do we consume 35% more food...

A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And...

From Cnut to D-Day, the history and science of the unceasing tide is explored for the first time.

Half of the world's...