5 Jan 2012: Alison Benjamin: Sightings of snowdrops and hazel catkins mean spring may be nearly here, but bees' honey stocks are low after a tough 2011
Kipepeo butterfly farm in Kenya is a small community-based project that helps local farmers to earn a living from the forest by rearing butterfly pupae for export
Fruit, frogs, birds, insects, plants: they are all enjoying a warm autumn as the seasons go topsy-turvy. Ecologists are observing a rash of freak occurrences and oddities throughout England
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about all those wonderful nature, science and history books that are hot-off-the-presses in North America and the UK