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Climate Change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact.

Make...

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...

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

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

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 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...

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of...

Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world...

Oceans are the most mysterious places on earth. Their depths remain largely unexplored, yet ninety-five percent of the planet's...

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

In this lyrical meditation on America's...