Juno

It’s early July, glow-worms are lighting up the hedgerows and chalk grasslands after dark, swifts with this year's fledglings are performing their last displays before leaving for Africa, and the underground world of fungi has just made headlines for holding the planet together at a scale nobody had previously even guessed at. News Scientists working with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks have published the first - and frankly astonishing - global map of the planet’s...

A Gaelic word, dúchas in Irish Gaelic and dùthchas in the Scottish, crops up time and time again when I'm researching for Eden Rooted. It speaks of kinship with the land - a sense of belonging to a place and responsibility toward it, a way of life with it and a longing for it. It's not a uniquely Celtic idea. You find it the world over: from the Andean concept of ayni, to Māori kaitiakitanga ... and in the universal pull to get outside into the green and breathe. Science is catching up with...

Three simple practices to reconnect with the living world this May The May is officially out! And if you can do nothing else right now, whether it’s raining or shining, make sure you take a big, happy, thankful breath of this May air! Enjoy your connection with every other breathing, respiring, transpiring, photosynthesising life-form out there - it’s all truly miraculous and you are an essential knot in that glorious net. Threshold time! Across the world, the annual flow into spring has...