Nature

Spiritually infused and with one foot in electronica and the other in nature, Vancouver’s Marc-E creates music called psybient. It’s best described as part ambient and part synthy, with a peppering of world instruments and a healthy dose…

Lights, Camera, Action Button! is a series exploring film-to-game adaptations in regard to their faithfulness, quality and value long after the original film may have passed into nostalgia. In this edition Jack Ford looks at March of the…

There was snow on Yellowstone Park that day. Bushes reached out of the ground like clumps of tangled fingers and yellow winter-flowers bloomed in the grass. A grey sky hung low as if it were weighed down by the clouds, so that it blended…

Have you ever tried to put a price on a walk through a forest or the inspiration from a river you cross on the way to work everyday? Probably not, but the value of nature is something we should pay more attention to and even incorporate…

Daniel Chester is a visual artist based out of County Leitrim. He has a Masters in Visual Arts Practices from the College of Art and Design, Dunlaoghaire, Dublin. His hauntingly sullen images depict scenes of nature,  representing the…

Musicians do better at cocktail parties In case you needed more reasons to take your favourite muso to your next party, it turns out that they’re better at listening during noisy situations. An article published in Nature shows that people…

Marina & The Diamonds FROOT Review ratings are a funny thing. They are of course meant to be a rough guide, something for the reader who doesn’t have time to skim past and go “okay, that’s good, I’ll get it” or “no, it’s terrible, I…

On September 30th the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) released a landmark report on the health of our planet, which presents many harsh realities about the impact the ballooning pressures our species has been putting on the Earth’s…

I can remember when I was just a whipper-snapper, my Mam would have her book of garden birds and we would spend time staring out into the back garden pointing out the several different species that resided in our humble hedges and trees. I…