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Natural history at the pace it actually happens — birds, bogs, beavers, kelp, the recovery of forests after fire.
Nature
A weeklong dive log records the underwater work of a marine biologist who has measured the giant kelp forests of the central California coast through three marine heatwaves, and is now watching them recover.
Nature
Eight years after the deadliest wildfire in California history, an ecologist returns to the Sierra Nevada foothills to read the slow handwriting of the white fir's recovery, and finds a forest learning to be a different kind of forest.
Nature
A seven-year study in the conifer plantations of Northumberland and Cumbria has documented the slow, secretive recolonisation of northern England by a predator most people had given up for lost.
Nature
At a coastal wetland reserve forty minutes from the capital, a population of grey herons and milky storks holds on against the encroaching city, watched over by a Malaysian biologist who has counted them every fortnight for eleven years.
Nature
On a raised bog in the Irish midlands, a small team has spent twenty years undoing two centuries of drainage. The peat is rising again, millimetre by millimetre, and the sundews have come back.
Nature
Two decades after the first unsanctioned releases, Eurasian beavers are reshaping the burns and side channels of Perthshire, and the ecologists who tracked them through the long unofficial years are finally being listened to.
Nature
Each spring the European nightjar threads the Strait of Gibraltar at dusk, a small grey ghost moving between continents while ornithologists in southern Spain listen for the churr that betrays it.
