The Latest Breaking News from Robert Macfarlane

A forest in Ecuador could be credited as the co-author of a song

Petition to Ecuador’s copyright office is first legal attempt to recognise an ecosystem’s moral authorship

Robert Macfarlane, Feargal Sharkey and Matt Haig are among artists to react with fury to message about funding risks

With Sam Lee and Robert Macfarlane guesting, Kerry Andrew shows a knack for experimentation, deploying playground rhymes, birdsong and even their radiator

The musician-actor and the writer follow their inspiring lockdown debut with another buoyant fusion of English folk and big themes

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Hadrian’s Wall landmark was symbolic of pride and resistance. Its loss should serve as a poignant reminder of the precarity of nature

Robert Macfarlane says tree’s felling was part of hostile culture and calls for forest to be planted in its honour

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…