Hannah Hamilton
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Murmurations of starlings can give us all a lift in dark January
- Science
- January 24, 2019
The light at this time of year has a particularly ethereal quality. Dim and hazy, struggling to reach us, it sometimes seems to illuminate only shadow(...)

New year’s resolutions for nature
- Science
- December 27, 2018, 06:00
While they’re more likely to give up gin and tonic than call themselves environmentalists, my aunts are among the most switched-on people I know when (...)

Grim times: Don’t expect science to save the planet
- Science
- November 19, 2018, 16:57
It has been a depressing month to be a human, and I’m not just talking about the political eutrophication to the east and west of our shores. The Worl(...)

The sound of climate change is silent inaction
- Science
- October 25, 2018, 06:00
Have you ever wondered what climate change sounds like? Me neither. Until a couple of weeks ago, that is, when I was 3,000m above sea level in the mid(...)

Foraging and the notion of natural literacy
- Science
- September 27, 2018, 00:00
There’s something magical about finding a patch of wildness in the middle of a bustling city. A few weeks ago, I followed a previously unknown path do(...)

Are we worried about the wrong plastic?
- Science
- August 23, 2018
Like many people I spent the Christmas holidays last year binge-watching Blue Planet 2 and gasping in horror at the vivid tragedy of plastic pollution(...)

The importance of a good hedgerow
- Science
- July 26, 2018, 05:00
Petrichor, the smell that rain makes when it falls on dry soil, is the smell of relief. Right now, the first showers in weeks are bringing welcome dro(...)

What is sustainable, anyway?
- Science
- June 28, 2018, 01:00
I’m standing in the supermarket. I’m in a hurry. I need tomatoes. There are juicy-looking organic ones from Turkey, wrapped in plastic I can’t recycle(...)

Biodiversity loss: the biggest crisis you’ve probably never heard of
- Science
- May 24, 2018, 11:05
So, what are you doing for Biodiversity Week? It’s probably not a question you’ve asked yourself, and that’s probably not your fault. The wonders of n(...)

If we need plants, and plants need pollinators, we need pollinators too
- Science
- January 18, 2018, 05:00
It may seem blindingly obvious, but unlike birds, mammals and insects, plants can’t move around to find a mate. So when it comes to ensuring their gen(...)