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Top 10s Top 10 books about listening to nature

From precise transliterations of birdsong to a quest for one square inch of silence, these stories teach us how to open our ears to the world

Published: 1 Jun 2022

Atoms and Ashes by Serhii Plokhy review – why another nuclear disaster is almost inevitable

A grim account of the downhill slide of atomic power since its heyday in the 1950s illustrates why it can never be the solution to global heating

Published: 30 May 2022
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates review – a germ of an idea

Published: 29 May 2022
The big idea The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong?

Published: 23 May 2022

An optimist’s guide to the future: the economist who believes that human ingenuity will save the world

Oded Galor’s ‘Sapiens’-like history of civilisation predicts a happy ending for humanity. But should we trust him?

Published: 30 Apr 2022
4 out of 5 stars.

The Velvet Queen review – powerful hymn to the land of the snow leopard
4 out of 5 stars.

This account of a photography expedition in Tibet goes beyond usual nature documentary territory in its writerly contemplation of the wild

Published: 25 Apr 2022
Book of the day Sounds Wild and Broken review – a moving paean to Earth’s fraying soundtrack

David George Haskell’s often wonderful book explores the often lost frequencies of nature – heard clearly during Covid’s initial human hush

Published: 25 Apr 2022
The vision collector: the man who used dreams and premonitions to predict the future

In 1966, a British psychiatrist had an idea: to change the course of history by asking the public to share their eerie intuitions

Published: 23 Apr 2022

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