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In our ‘Wild Alaska’ issue, we asked you to design a global warming monster. What powerful and thought-provoking drawings you sent us! Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
“I decided to make a cloud monster that changes the climate. EcoBreaker has many powers and gadgets to destroy Earth. He eats coal, then blows smoke, causing pollution and thinning the ozone layer. The blade is to cut down trees so we have less oxygen. His fire hand is to make forest fires to scare animals to show who is boss.”
“I made a fire monster – it is heating up the world. I drew an aeroplane, which made the monster angry, and a tree and a person who is sad.”
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We were swept away by the response to this competition. Letters arrived from rivers across the world – the Thames, the Mississippi and many more unnamed waterways – each one brimming with personality, passion and a genuine love of the natural world. You gave your rivers voices that were worried, hop...
Somewhere beneath a grassy field right now, a tiny insect is building an underground loudspeaker. Male mole crickets engineer horn-shaped burrows that amplify their calls hundreds of metres into the night air – and your child can recreate the same science at home using nothing but cardboard and a phone. This hands-on experiment explores sound, shape and natural engineering in a way that is genuinely surprising. No screens, no special equipment, just a brilliant idea borrowed from nature.
Our Risky Moment competition invited young explorers to capture a risky moment in the wild – a split second when animals must make bold choices to survive. From daring leaps across rocky cliffs to dangerous river crossings, we received many hair-raising entries showing just how adventurous life in nature can be.
