"... since the Second World War ... the proton magnetometer has revolutionized measurements, satellites have given new…"

"Two recent studies of the geomagnetic field in the last 1Myr have found 14 excursions, large changes in direction las…"

"Earthquakes radiate waves with periods of tenths of seconds to several minutes. Rocks behave like elastic solids at t…"

"After a large earthquake the earth "rings" like a bell; this motion can be observed on sensitive instruments up to a …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"