drought
A season of strangeness: The Hounding, by Xenobe Purvis, reviewed
Little Nettlebed is in the grip of serious drought, and the angry villagers are looking for scapegoats in this irresistible page-turner set in 18th-century Oxfordshire
Wild life
The Farm, Laikipia I realised the worst drought of this generation was at last over this morning when two Samburu…
Wild life
Kenya After two years of no rain, all colour has drained from the landscape on the farm so that by…
Real life
Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a…
Wild life
Laikipia You know things are bad when the zebras are thin. Even during most droughts, zebras are like matrons at…
The four billion people question
Demographers are attached to their theories. The field’s most enduring is the ‘demographic transition’, whereby modernisation inexorably lowers a society’s…
Iran is running out of water
It’s far from an exact science, but if you want to get a sense of where the world is heading…
Wild life
Laikipia I was drinking in the fresh air on the high earth wall of my farm dam last week, when…
Get ready: these climate change talks might actually do something
The Prince of Wales is right, and I appreciate that this isn’t something people say very often. Now and again,…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, outlined four changes he sought in Britain’s membership of the EU. He wanted to…
