Four songwriters have petitioned Ecuador’s copyright to recognize the Los Cedros forest as their official co-author.

In a world first, 'rights of nature' project petitions copyright office to recognise Los Cedros forest as song co-creator ...

The petition by the More than Human Life (MOTH) project, which advocates for “advancing the rights of humans and non-humans”, ...

His look at the network of roots below London’s... Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards. Norton, $15.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-324-01582-6 This uneven but ultimately ...

Author Robert Macfarlane has always been fascinated with landscape and topography, the study of physical features in an area, like hills, valleys, or rivers. We may not notice how a footpath is ...

Robert grew up in a family of amateur mountaineers and spent holidays exploring the Cairngorms, nurturing a fascination which inspired Mountains of the Mind, his debut book about the history of ...

Leading authors, illustrators and agents have spoken out against the Guardian Media Group’s proposed sale of the world’s ...

It sounds crazy. But the song in question is Song Of The Cedars. It includes melodies of echo-locating bats, howler monkeys, ...

On a sunny spring day, I stood at the top of a steep hill in Nepal's Himalayan mountain range. I turned to look at the path I ...

More than 150 people from our area joined thousands urging the government to end the pollution of Britain’s waterways.

Several photographic shows have been reviewed in this column recently, and the relation of photography to time, temporality and the moment have been ...

Over 150 campaigners for cleaner water in the river Wye, including a ten-foot tall “goddess” of the river, joined a mass protest in ...