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Mangrove photography awards 2023 – in pictures Seascape: the state of our oceans is supported by About this content Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Winners and runners-up in the mangrove photography awards run by the Mangrove Action Project. This year, Soham Bhattacharyya was named mangrove photographer of the year for an image capturing the curious gaze of an endangered tigress in the Sundarbans

Fungi This article is more than 1 year oldMushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims This article is more than 1 year oldProfessor theorises electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be similar to human language Buried in forest litter or sprouting from trees, fungi might give the impression of being silent and relatively self-contained organisms, but a new study suggests they may be champignon communicators.

Reading groupOrhan PamukOrhan Pamuk's Snow: a book about 'other' people – and therefore usWhether you read it after 9/11 or Trump’s election, Pamuk’s 2004 novel seems endlessly timely. How did he do it? “It comes as a surprise that political prescience should be yet another of the many gifts of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk,” wrote Stephen O’Shea when he reviewed Snow in the Independent in May 2004. Months later, Margaret Atwood also described the novel as “eerily prescient” in the New York Times, specifically the novel’s handling of fundamentalism, as it was written before 9/11.

ObituaryPatricia BeerPoet with a wry line on dissenters and DevonExplaining in 1988 why she was publishing her Collected Poems, Patricia Beer, who has died aged 79, recalled hearing that she had been discounted by an editor as a possible reviewer because "somebody authoritatively told somebody else that I was dead." "A Collected Poems is a way of saying I am not really dead," was Beer's mock-apology for her collection. It was characteristic, partly because it caught her characteristic tone of wry melancholy (there is much graveyard humour in her work), and partly because she recognised that she was out of the current of poetic fashion and innovation.

Skyfall This article is more than 9 years oldSkyfall location in Scottish Highlands blighted by litter and fly-tippingThis article is more than 9 years oldGlen Etive residents set up a Facebook page to show photos of damage done by campers to National Trust of Scotland site Skyfall: watch the trailer featuring Adele's Bond theme song The spectacular Scottish Highlands location of Glen Etive, used as James Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall, is under threat after suffering extensive damage from littering campers and fly-tippers.

The ObserverIslamic StateHow were bright British Muslim girls lured into joining Isis? Azadeh Moaveni travelled to Turkey, Syria and Tunisia to find out When the Bethnal Green schoolgirls disappeared off the streets of east London in early 2015, never showing up at home for dinner and instead boarding flights to Istanbul, their parents hadn’t the slightest inkling. The first to leave had been Sharmeena Begum. She left to join Isis, followed two months later by Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum (no relation).

Tennessee This article is more than 1 year oldCamel kills two men after escaping Tennessee petting zooThis article is more than 1 year oldSheriff’s deputies destroyed the animal after finding ‘two unconscious victims’ and ‘a camel still on the loose A camel killed two men after escaping a petting zoo in Tennessee, a county sheriff said. Officials from the Obion county sheriff’s office said the fatal incident unfolded around 5.44pm on Thursday, when they “received a call of a loose camel near Shirley Farms on South Bluff Road in Obion … attacking people”.

Cif beliefMental health This article is more than 12 years oldCarl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriouslyThis article is more than 12 years oldMark VernonAchieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is central to his theory of personality developmentIf you have ever thought of yourself as an introvert or extrovert; if you've ever deployed the notions of the archetypal or collective unconscious; if you've ever loved or loathed the new age; if you have ever done a Myers-Briggs personality or spirituality test; if you've ever been in counselling and sat opposite your therapist rather than lain on the couch – in all these cases, there's one man you can thank: Carl Gustav Jung.

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán This article is more than 3 years oldEl Chapo's daughter is married at majestic Mexican cathedralThis article is more than 3 years oldOstentatious wedding to groom with underworld links is seen as reminder of bride’s family’s power It was the society wedding of the year in Mexico’s drug cartel heartland: Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán, daughter of the convicted kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tied the knot with the kin of another member of Mexico’s underworld.