The iconic tree lived through the Little Ice Age, modern climate change, and an alarming drop in biodiversity.

Even in a time with limited alternatives, polluted waterways were not simply accepted without complaint.

Humans have long struggled to understand the nocturnal world. As environmental change becomes increasingly acute, understanding their lives has never been more critical.

Plague-wary Londoners tolerated mischievous red kites and ravens for their services to the city's sanitation.

The UK's marshes, bogs and fens provided the bare necessities of daily life for many centuries.

Food shortages, festivities and far-off fighting – Britain's coldest winters were among its most memorable.

Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.