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“Why are the trees here so big?”
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A lighter note

“Why are the trees here so big?”

X-mas hangover!

Dreams are lovely, life is good

Showy fuchsia, in memory of the teacher... The many plant names recorded in the National Botanic Garden's database

What do you call a fly’s husband? The fly’s partner?

No curly coats in sight

The Horse Podcast Within the Limits of One Sentence, together with Bony Fashion, or: The most amusing company names registered in 2024

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Tell me, please, where should I go? Text messages received by Latvian healers (from confidential sources)

Escape: “We do not believe in principles, only in frogs”

Things internet users are trying to give away. “Especially good prices on wood waste...”

Flies die. “Eat a little – healthy; eat more – happy; eat more still – sleep well.”

A kicked-in pumpkin in Kuldīga...

School, mushrooms. “It wasn’t that the joke was improper or anything, just that it has been seen more often than a chanterelle...”

A brawl is brewing outside Kukulītis. "Turns out – the responsible service is taking down the festive decorations..."

I'm no little war. "But I know that in the end everything will be all right!"

UK drivers could save more than €150 and win prizes if they give up their cars next month…

What to Read to Milkmaids on Mechanised Farms

90 million EU households have pets. How can the CO₂ emissions they cause be reduced?

Five quotations. “If the water from the aquarium has already been used, eat the goldfish too...”

A fatter and more repulsive inner reptile. “Success is not a breakfast laid out on the table.”

“News about the new Latvian newspapers of St Petersburg”, published in Pēterburgas Avīzes No. 1

The strong bees of the green lips +
It would be good to laugh at something. “Yet “laughing” now seems mere child’s play compared with the repulsive “mocking”...”
In building the fence on the border, the builders are meeting technical challenges thrown up by nature
Why has a Polish scientist classified cats as an “invasive alien species”?
The rhododendron “Babītes Ruksis” and its friends have settled on the Līgatne nature trails
The project titles found in Latvia’s scientific activity database
The Latvian debt to pleasure
Iceland’s justice minister plunges into a waterfall
Strange letters are visible in a satellite image over Ādaži
In Britain women “marry” trees to protect them
Think again!
The blue bottle fly on an assassin snail
A mysterious tree pest. No, a little horn!
The frog’s list. The lift is our friend!
Visitors to Rīga Zoo are asked to let the kangaroo Kingaroo sleep the way he likes, not the way the visitors would like
Oskars’s letter to Otto, “On the future of the planet”
A cat’s story about mastering Europe. The naivety of hopes...
The time of viruses
The bear receives the most EU money
The Animal World, part 2. The nutcracker bites, gentlemen!
The Animal World, part 1. The sour-bellied whale.
The society, wishes and fates of tadpoles, frogs and toads.
About wasps
Times and virtues
My demands are only fair!
Spring. Watch out for the smoke
Should these now be put on the list of banned books?
Keep your distance!
A breathing tax for Latvia’s residents: the guarantee of success!
Postpone! For now, postpone!
Latvia and anteaters
Butter, Līgo and quotas
Let us donate to comrade Ērglis! The poor thing...
50,000 birds under the cat’s tail (A story about re-education. Mine and Mūdzis’s)
The campaign “Be ashamed to fly” in Sweden
We are coming, or A green Christmas. An extract from Pauls Bankovskis’s story
“The pig and the oak”
Let us protect life, or how much living nature is there in Latvia?
The scorchers’ “happy” summer
Viesturs Ķerus allocates funding to himself for a “golden” magazine
One stray cat kills 46 birds a year
2.2 million EUR for the lesser spotted eagle, and it will have its own film too
How an anonymous lynx and wolf protection interest group tries to blacken scientists’ work