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Build a Snow Fort!

While it feels cold to the touch, believe it or not, snow is actually a wonderful insulator. Animals such as

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Wandering Seeds

Isn’t it curious that even though plants can’t walk, they still manage to show up in the strangest of places?

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Magic Butterfly Potion

Who has not been enchanted by the delicate, fluttering and colourful wind dancers known as butterflies? Or as a friend

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THOSE GLOWING EYES: The Story of Eye Shine

You are driving after dark and there just in the bushes at the side of the road are a pair

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The Aliens Next Door

Under a veil of water, In the mud and the ooze, A strange creature lurks, A strange creature moves. You

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For The Birds

The temperature has dipped to minus 20 degrees Celsius. Wind is whipping snowflakes into white swirls and pine boughs are

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Cool Winter Sounds

Ahh, a walk in the forest on a bitterly cold winter’s day: you hear the crunch of snow underfoot. At

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Celebrating the Very Small

It was a glorious autumn day. With my son on my back and my daughter on my shoulders, I hiked

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Calling All Fire Flies

Ah, the gentle flash of a firefly. Tiny bursts of starlight punctuate the dark like the dots and dashes from