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1 week ago | 
ft.com | Graeme Green
I’ve lived in North Yorkshire all my life.
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1 week ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Graeme Green
Photographer Quintin Lake spent five years walking the coast of mainland Britain. He explains why the coast tells Britain's story better than anywhere else. Camping out on the wild cliffs in Caithness in north-west Scotland, British photographer Quintin Lake wasn't short on company.
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1 week ago | 
positive.news | Graeme Green
Optimism isn’t everything, but it’s seriously useful, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury in his new book. He draws on history, philosophy and science to make his case – as well as his own experience of grief
Lifestyle Perspective Science Society Wellbeing Optimism isn’t everything, but it’s seriously useful, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury in his new book.
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1 week ago | 
cntraveller.com | Graeme Green
Raynor and Moth Winn are not the first people to have sought out the healing powers of nature in difficult times.
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2 weeks ago | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Graeme Green
A great play can put audience members on the edges of their seats. A terrible play, though, can force viewers to make either a diplomatic departure during the interval or a hunched, awkward stumble through dark rows of seats towards the exit. “I have walked out of many plays if I’m not enjoying them,” Naga Munchetty admits. “There was one particular production of King Lear I was so excited about, with a famous actor playing the lead. Lear is one of my favourite plays, but it was hammy and awful.
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4 weeks ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Graeme Green
Wild chimpanzees are able to drum rhythmically and the drumming they produce shares some rhythmic properties with human music, a new study has found. With an absence of drum kits at their disposal, chimps across East and West Africa beat their hands and feet on the surfaces of huge tree roots that form large flat buttresses. Their drumming is a form of communication and a way to express dominance, rather than a form of musical expression.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Graeme Green
In April 2013, Nudrat Afza, a Muslim woman from Bradford, gave her 90-year-old Jewish friend Lorle Michaelis a lift to the local Orthodox synagogue. “As Lorle got out of the car, she told me it would be the last service,” Afza recalls. “There were no longer enough people to run them. I was shocked. I knew the building would be sold or demolished.”Afza got out of the car and took a few quick photos of the synagogue’s exterior.
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1 month ago | 
discoverwildlife.com | Graeme Green
A team of conservationists in Madagascar has discovered a small population of critically endangered Belalanda chameleons in a location where it has never previously been recorded. First described in 1970, the Belalanda chameleon is one of the world’s rarest reptiles, with one of the most restricted ranges of any animal on the planet – an area measuring approximately four square kilometres – and one of the smallest known distributions of any land vertebrate, which makes it particularly vulnerable.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Graeme Green
Thor Pedersen’s wedding day was a strange affair. Wearing a new suit he’d had tailored in Hong Kong, he was alone in his Kwai Chung flat while his Danish fiancée, Le, was more than 8,000km away in Denmark. Due to the different time zones, they didn’t even get married on the same day. “It was lockdown in Denmark because of the pandemic,” explains Pedersen. “Le was alone in her apartment and couldn’t have any friends or family over.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Graeme Green
“I really don’t like the word ‘paludiculture’ – most people have no idea what it means,” Sarah Johnson says. “I prefer the term ‘wetter farming’.”The word might be baffling, but the concept is simple: paludiculture is the use of wet peatlands for agriculture, a practice that goes back centuries in the UK, including growing reeds for thatching roofs.
