I’ve often walked past this spot on my way to the marketplace, briefly revelling in the flowers growing behind their tall metal cage. A stalled building project behind the 14th-century Moot Hall, the heaps of gravel and waste have sprouted into a community of pioneer plants. With camera...
These days, when I come back into the house after being out on the land, it’s dust that I drop, not the mud I carried in on my boots and clothes during the past three years when the rain kept everything, and everyone, sodden most of the time. The rain that also kept at bay the feeling of...
Japan has entered its annual holiday festival of Obon, or Bon, when millions of people normally travel across the country to see family. Bon, which runs until Wednesday 16 August, is being threatened across some parts of Japan by Typhoon Lan. The storm is now east of Japan, tracking...
A leading climate crisis author has staged a walkout at the Edinburgh international book festival in protest at its sponsor’s links to fossil fuel companies. The author and climate activist Mikaela Loach interrupted a discussion about changing the climate narrative on Saturday evening to...
Dead flies could be turned into biodegradable plastic, researchers have said. The finding, presented at the autumn meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), could be useful as it is difficult to find sources for biodegradable polymers that do not have other competing uses. “For 20...
