Nature
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Jason Goodwin: The £9 million-per-pylon removal programme has begun, and it's already revealed bizarre secrets
Our columnist writes about the unsuspected secrets revealed by a project to rid our prettiest skylines of electricity pylons.
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Curious Questions: How did a stork with a spear through its neck solve the mystery of the migration of birds?
For thousands of years, most people were convinced that birds hibernated in the winter — until a staggeringly resilient stork proved otherwise. Martin Fone explains.
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Cnicht, Snowdonia: If you only climb one mountain in your life, it should be this one
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How the 125-year-old National Trust fulfils 21st-century needs for a beautiful Britain
Caring for places of history and natural beauty is a necessity which spans the ages.
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The great garden birdwatch schemes which need your help
This is the time of year when the big birdwatching schemes ask for the public's help to record the numbers of our feathered friends in the gardens of Britain. Annunciata Elwes explains more.
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Country Life's quirkiest features of 2019: The dog who summoned the armed police, the bus that jumped Tower Bridge and the likelihood of death by coconut
The best thing about being a magazine with such a wide readership is the truly eclectic mix of articles that we're able to deliver to your doorsteps. Here are our favourites from the past year.
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Country Life's best Instagram posts of 2019: Gorgeous interiors, stately homes and the lamb that broke the internet
One of Country Life's crowning jewels is our carefully-curated Instagram feed, displaying the Best of Britain twice a day, every day.
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Country Life's top 10 nature stories of 2019, from mesmerising photographs to the bird that can screech as loud as a fighter jet
Nature, in all its beauty and ferocity, was celebrated in these unforgettable articles.
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The perennial fascination with snow at Christmas, and how it's all down to Charles Dickens and the Little Ice Age
Snow at Christmas is a rare sight across most of Britain, yet it’s indelibly intertwined in the collective imagination. Felicity Day explains why.
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Golden Eagles: The aristocrats of the air — magnificent, haughty and deadly
David Profumo admires the golden eagle, the aristocrat of the air.
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90-million-year-old 'swimming dinosaur' skeleton found by dogs out walking in Somerset, and the nonchalant moths who don't bother fleeing enemies
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Curious Questions: Which bird's song is loudest?
We tend to think of bird song as endearing and delicate — but there are birds out there who would put the average foghorn to shame. Martin Fone finds out which is the loudest.
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Jon Snow on London's treescape: ‘The environment should be the backdrop to everything we do’
The Channel 4 news presenter and tree champion on how he woke up to climate change.
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Jason Goodwin: ‘Sow is one of the mildest sweetest pigs ever. Boar is bigger, a gentleman and a scholar.'
Jason Goodwin muses over whether it's his moral duty to begin to keep pigs again, given the pork shortage soon to shake the globe.
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Six absolutely spectacular images from the Historic Photographer of the Year competition
An ethereal image of Wells Cathedral, a windswept pier on the east coast and castle in Kent were among the pictures praised by judges for the third Historic Photographer of the Year competition.
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The CLA president on why private landowners are part of the climate-change solution
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Oystercatchers: The 'hammerers and stabbers' of the avian world, who can live into their 40s
An evocative symbol of our coast, with its shrill call and pied plumage, the oystercatcher is actually more fond of feeding on limpets, discovers Vicky Liddell.
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Are we facing 'Insectmageddon' or is it too soon to worry? Experts split over latest bug research
There's good news and bad news from the insect world in two recent reports that paint different pictures of the plight of insects around Britain. Carla Passino explains.
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10 superb pictures from Nature Photographer of the Year 2019
A cheeky duck and a majestic arch of the aurora borealis are among the magnificent photographs honoured by the 2019 Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
