Prose and Passion

Open Archive Day A year ago, reflecting the rise of certain politicians and movements aiming to reinstate old-fashioned prejudice against ...

In a widely publicised paper this summer, researchers claimed to have dicovered the world's oldest cheese in an Egyptian tomb. Only that...

Open Archive Day As another climate conference is coming up in December, it's the numbering that really gets to me. COP24 means, abov...

I've been covering bee problems for well over a decade now - since the crisis around colony collapse disorder in the mid-00s. Progress ...

Open Archive Day There are so many exciting discoveries coming out of the analyses of ancient DNA - ranging from recent history back to th...

O club de calceta María Reimóndez Edicions Xerais 2006 This book has been translated into Spanish, Italian and French, but apparently no...

We're used to the thought that animal conservation is by and large a losing battle. Animal species are becoming extinct at an alarming r...

Open Archive Day Recent years with the Facebook revelations and the trumpocalyptic tweets that may start a nuclear war any day now have ...

Global tourism is growing so steeply that it is rapidly becoming a problem not just for popular destinations (like Oxford, for instance) but...

for more than a decade, from Was Biotronik alles kann (2002) to Invasion der Waschbären (2014), my books in German were published by Wile...

Leïla Slimani Dans le jardin de l’ogre When Leïla Slimani won the Prix Goncourt in 2016 for Chanson douce (English title: Lullaby), I r...

Open Archive Day This time last year, I had a feature on plastic pollution out (I think it was my third one on that topic). Since then, th...