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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris audiobook review – a love letter to our feathered friends

This compendium profiles 49 of Britain’s threatened species, with each entry featuring a prose poem evoking the unique qualities of each bird and their meticulously recorded call

The Guardian - UK

To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds

Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane give the Guardian exclusive extracts as they aim to open eyes to the wonder of Britain’s declining and endangered species

The Guardian - UK

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Sunn O))): Sunn O))) review – a seismic return to drone metal’s elemental core

The doomy duo strip back their sound to tectonic guitars and feedback, conjuring an immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of Washington

The Guardian - UK

Underland review – poetic exploration of life deep beneath the Earth’s surface

Sinkholes, storm drains, manmade labs miles underground … this documentary, based on Robert Macfarlane’s book, burrows deep into some of humanity’s great unknowns

The Guardian - UK

‘Fear is good’: my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane’s dazzling book

As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somerset

The Guardian - UK

Earth and Other Planets review – reimagined Holst with harmonica and a hoedown

Left-field duo Stevens & Pound threaded funky folk stylings with poetry by Robert Macfarlane and virtuoso playing by Britten Sinfonia to create The Silent Planet, a rethinking of Holst’s Planets Suite, with the addition of the newly composed Earth

The Guardian - UK

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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift

The Guardian - UK

The best children’s books of 2025

A new read-aloud favourite, doughnuts with world-conquering ambitions, high fantasy from Katherine Rundell, and more

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Could a river sue a corporation? Robert Macfarlane’s books change the world – now he’s advocating for the world’s waterways

Robert Macfarlane is not easy to pin down – song writer, nature writer, children’s author, environmental activist, documentary film maker, mountain climber and restless adventurer, spoken word performer, literary historian, librettist, linguist and researcher. Likewise, his books are so various and yet so much themselves, it seems he has forged…

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Does a river have legal rights?

Salon sits down with Robert Macfarlane, whose new book asks the titular question, "Is a River Alive?"

Salon

Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’

The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature

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Is a River Alive? by Robert Mcfarlane: a beautiful overture for our dying rivers

There’s been a lot of noise about the state of our rivers these past few years, and quite right too. An Environment Agency report in 2020 revealed that not a single river, lake or stream in England was classified as in “good health” and during last year’s general election campaign,…

The Conversation

Robert Macfarlane’s new book is a plea to feel the pulse of our rivers

Suggesting that a river could be alive has the potential to change everything. Robert Macfarlane, one of Britain’s best-read writers on the natural environment, has done just this in his latest book.

The Guardian - UK

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness

An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure

The Guardian - UK

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

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What are the best mountaineering books? 10 high-altitude classics for armchair adventurers

Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations

Evening Standard

The best books to get now — and look forward to in Spring

Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and chilly winter. We can’t promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark…

The Guardian - UK

Nonfiction to look out for in 2025

From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss

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If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it, should it receive a royalty payment?

A forest in Ecuador could be credited as the co-author of a song

The Guardian - UK

Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator

Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship

The Guardian - UK

Caroline Lucas: ‘Rory Stewart finds Westminster as dysfunctional as I do’

The MP and author on reading her political rival’s memoir, the wonders of Robert Macfarlane and the joy of Barbara Kingsolver

The Guardian - UK

Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

The long read: The ocean’s depths are not some remote alien realm, but are in fact intimately entangled with every other part of the planet. We should treat them that way

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