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Could TV Naturalists Become Extinct? Attenborough Thinks So..

PA | Posted 12.09.2012 | UK Entertainment

Sir David Attenborough believes TV naturalists like him could become extinct and replaced by amateurs from the YouTube generation. The broadcaster ...

Walking Your Way to Greatness... The Great British Walk

Mike Collins | Posted 03.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Mike Collins

Going on a walk allows us to take a step back from our daily routine. You can feel the wind in your face, the changing of the seasons, the excitement of coming across a beautiful building or the buzz from immersing yourself in a rich social history.

PICTURES: This Year's Best Wildlife Photos

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK

Exactly 100 pieces of stunning wildlife photography are to go on display at the Natural History Museum in London ahead of the announcement of the Veol...

Are Farmers Making You Fat?

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.08.2012 | UK

Farmers may have caused the obesity epidemic by using antibiotics to fatten up livestock, according to a study. Researchers found low exposure to a...

Bio Engineers Take Apart A Rat To Build Artificial Jellyfish

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.09.2012 | UK Tech

Bioengineers have taken apart a rat and built a jellyfish. The synthetic animal - called a medusoid - was put together with silicone and muscle cel...

Why We Need to Protect Landmarks Like the White Cliffs of Dover

Mike Collins | Posted 10.09.2012 | UK
Mike Collins

It's a rare quality for one single place to have such a standing in a nations collective memory that it comes to symbolise the character and spirit of a country. The White Cliffs of Dover have served that function for countless generations and really do encapsulate that often over used word 'iconic'. 

Merlin's Country

Gillian Clarke | Posted 28.08.2012 | Home
Gillian Clarke

Caerfyrddin, my father's county, takes its name from the Roman word for a castle, caer, and the wizard Myrddin - famously in English, Merlin - who was born, they say, in the town of Carmarthen.

Storm Chasing Photographer Captures Nature's Fury (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK

Mushroom clouds, forks of lightning, furious thunderstorms and tornado funnels are the apocalyptic images which make up this astonishing set of bl...

The Creepiest Exhibition Ever?

The Huffington Post UK | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 19.06.2012 | Home

Rolling hills and idyllic countryside, doesn't it sometimes all get rather twee? Art dealers Coates and Scarry seem to think so, which is why they've ...

Notes on Camping: Nature is All About Sex!

Sara Bran | Posted 15.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Sara Bran

I'm back from a camping sojourn in the sodden British countryside and I have to reveal a shocking truth; everything in nature is about sex. Stuck in ...

Nature's Prince

Natalie Pace | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Natalie Pace

On June 2, 2012, the world celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, and her 60 years of outstanding service as Head of State to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Her firstborn son, Charles, The Prince of Wales, also celebrated a noteworthy occasion.

Economic Growth - Wrong Answer

Pippa Bartolotti | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK Politics
Pippa Bartolotti

Poised on the brink of economic meltdown as we are, governments all over the world are baying frantically for growth. But growth is not the answer to our problems.

Butterfly Numbers Dropping Across UK

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK

Britain's butterfly numbers fell by more than a fifth across the countryside last year, a study has revealed. The 22% drop in butterflies in 2011 i...

Bugs Do Battle: Creepy Crawlies Up Close (PICTURES)

Barcroft Media | Sara C Nelson | Posted 15.05.2012 | UK

A Polish photographer has spent hours capturing head-to-head insect battles. Igor Siwanowicz's shots of all-male battling insect include stag beet...

Jewel Caterpillar Looks Out Of This World (PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 15.05.2012 | UK

Looking not unlike a gummy sweet or an astonishingly accurate CG concoction, this jewel caterpillar is one of mother nature’s wildcards. The inc...

Panda Performance: Workers Don Bear Suits To Transport Cub

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK

Chinese zoo workers donned panda suits as they transported a cub and his mother to a new location at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. Panda cub...

Controversial ‘Bird Flu’ Study That Highlights Threat To Humans, Finally Published

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 03.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle

After months of debate, the science journal Nature has finally published the first of two controversial papers US security advisers previously warned ...

Bye Bye Bunny! Raven Swoops Off With A Rabbit (PICTURES)

SWNS | Sara C Nelson | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK

Source: SWNS A tiny bunny met with a grisly end after being snatched up and carried off by a hungry Raven. The rabbit's doomed last moments we...

WATCH: Spider Devours Snake, Golden Orb Arachnid Chomps Brown Tree Reptile (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK

The horrifying moment a golden orb spider devours a brown tree snake has been caught on video. Filmed by Cairns kite surfer Ant Hadleigh, the grue...

The Pleasure of Solitude and Nature

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Laila Escartín-Sorjonen

I had somebody ask me recently in a most astonished voice why I had moved back to Finland after almost 20 years abroad. It made me laugh. That a Finn should ask such a question, how typical! A Spaniard would've asked me how come I managed to survive so long away from Spain, the best country in the world!

There's Nothing Natural About National Trust's '50 Things' List for Children

BritMums | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
BritMums

But a to-do list? Don't we get enough of these with our children's educations, their diets, even their gestation in the womb. This list of "shoulds" goes against the very freeform discovery it's meant to inspire.

Bauble, Diamond or Dew Drop?

The Huffington Post UK | Harriet Williams | Posted 06.04.2012 | Home

Art is getting bigger. Whether it’s one hundred million sunflower seeds in the Tate Modern, or Damien Hirst’s vitrines, installation art is here t...

20 Feet Under: Having Dinner With the Fishes

Heimir Jónasson | Posted 13.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Heimir Jónasson

I was a bit nervous placing Eldhús at the end of an old dock in Stokkseyri. When I was 12 years old working on a farm one Summer I learned how to drive a tractor backwards with a trailer full of hay.

Felder Felder | London Fashion Week A/W 2012 Catwalk Show Review

Akeela Bhattay | Posted 07.05.2012 | UK Style
Akeela Bhattay

It's always feels a little bit surreal attending a 'mainstream' catwalk show at London fashion Week. I tend to spend most of the week at the Vauxhall ...

PICTURES: 'Britain's Largest Fox' Killed

Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.05.2012 | UK

A farmer claims to have killed the largest fox ever seen in Britain. Alan Hepworth from Aberdeenshire said he shot the 38lb 10oz fox near his home....