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I first came across Fraxinus uhdei in Colombia in 1998. It’s a species of ash tree from Mexico, known in Colombia as urapán...

‘The Death of Grass’ is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1956 by English novelist Samuel Youd under the pen name John Christopher...

I had an evening alone the other day while my youngest two were living it up in Nairobi while my wife was searching for them...

Or should it be: Where have all the birds gone? Or the non-human animals? Four months ago, I was walking with my dogs near my home...

In 1997 I stayed with a family in Armenia, a medium-sized city in the main coffee-growing region of Colombia.