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Features Ed Alex considers the impact of the recent stormy weather, and has high hopes that this isn't the end for our footpaths and forests.

How to Write a Pro-Glacier Book: An Earth Day Reading List Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, Iceland. Photo by beau mori on Unsplash. My writing is a product of my reading, so today, on Earth Day, I am pleased to share some of the books that inspired me to write On Time and Water. The theme of the book is, as the title says, time and water, and how all the elements of water that used to change on a geological scale of thousands or millions of years now change in a single human lifetime. Sometimes the issue is called "climate change," but that is just a term, and it comes nowhere close to expr...

To safeguard future generations, we must learn how to be better ancestors Roman Krznaric © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images It’s hard to see history being made when you’re right in the middle of it – especially when life has our attention spans locked into minutes, days and weeks. But in the midst of a pandemic that understandably focuses our attention on the here and now, a new global movement is rising in the name of long-term thinking and intergenerational justice. Their target is the tyranny of the now. The politicians who see...

very strong literary takes by Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Hillaire Belloc, and 36 other 20 th-century writers. Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions featured handwritten answers to a set of quiz questions like, “Who is the worst living poet?” and “Who is a deceased man of letters whose character you most dislike?” (So, the Literary Twitter version of 36 Questions that Lead to Love.) The volume was originally estimated to sell for £4000-6000, but at auction this week it went for a whopping £21k. Two unsurprising takeaways: people love Woolf, and people love gossip. It m...