Christmas is coming and retailers are preparing for the frantic last-minute shoppers, desperate to find something, at this point anything, to show how much...

Beauty can be found in the most commonplace. I was struck the other day by the perfect patterns created by a preening Mallard. Appreciation...

As the evenings darken and night draws in, some of us are forced to spend more time at home with our families instead of...

Long Valley is an intensively farmed area at the confluence of two rivers in the former British ‘New Territories’ of Hong Kong. It is...

As a form of entertainment, it may lack the sophistication of America’s Got Talent, but watching a gull trying to swallow a starfish is...

August through October is the typhoon season in Japan. A storm by the name of Roke was wreaking havoc as we landed into Tokyo’s...

First let me put forward my credentials for writing about butterflies. This is the second time that I have been butterfly watching and…..well, actually,...

I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east...