Jane Goodall

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Jennifer Jewell: “I see hope and value in a self-sustaining cycle of living with plants, loving plants, learning plants, growing plants, knowing plants, interpreting plants.” Photograph: John Whittlesey
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes

  We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

Sarah Silverman: ‘The hypocrisy blows my mind. What is the difference between saying ‘crap’ and ‘shit’? Yet you have to bleep ‘shit’.” Photograph: Brinson+Banks/New York Times
Sarah Silverman: You can't swear in front of a child but there are school shootings

“Donald? That’s my dad’s name,” Sarah Silverman nearly yells. “Of course it’s also the name of . . .” We’re here already. You just can’t escape the c(...)

Dr Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in June 2018. Photograph: Sumy Sadurni
The woman who redefined man: Jane Goodall’s life of activism continues

As soon as Dr Jane Goodall steps out of the Jeep by the chimpanzee enclosure at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, there’s a sudden outcry. The chi(...)

Jane Goodall in Gombe National Park, 1965: her findings on the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees would challenge the scientific orthodoxy of her time
A riveting journey into the wild with Jane Goodall

When conservationist and primatologist Dr Jane Goodall ventured into Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park in 1960, she wasn’t Dr Jane Goodall. Indeed(...)

Harambe: a boy entered the 17-year-old gorilla’s enclosure. Photograph: Jeff McCurry/Cincinnati Zoo
Donald Clarke: So many gorilla experts. So little insight

Each week some story emerges that invites us to pretend we are the greatest living authority on stuff about which we know next to nothing. This week t(...)

A reconstruction of Homo naledi’s head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating it from bone scans.
Scientists find evidence of new species related to humans

Excavations in a cave in South Africa have unearthed a new species of early human. The find is extraordinary because it suggests that this species int(...)

How walking in nature influenced my war novel
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  • June 30, 2015, 10:29

Every day I walk for one or two hours in the woods that surround the town where I live in Canada. These walks have informed the writing of my novel as(...)

Andrea Jones photographing the gardens at Ballyfin House, Co Laois. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Picture perfect

Flick through the pages of any glossy British or American gardening magazine and you’ll almost certainly come across the work of award-winning photogr(...)

Chimpanzee

We love the idea of Disneynature. The House of Mouse may own and manage everything from Pixar to Marvel Comics. But while there’s a bout(...)