heath

“Should I just leave now?” she asks herself after spotting a heath fritillary in Vendsyssel in northern Denmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

On Monday, USA Basketball announced that Wilson and Kelsey Plum, who had previously been announced as members of the team, will miss the World Cup for heath reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Tackling the High Fens fire was made much harder by the fens' terrain -- a patchwork of heath, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Volunteers have been key to managing the wider heath, cutting gorse and heather in winter and removing pines.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

At the edge of the heath stood a clump of hoary juniper bushes.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The survey also found 109 nightjar territories, the highest recorded, in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire, including Woolmer Forest and the commons of Shortheath, Bramshott, Ludshott, Broxhead and Kingsley.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Using the PCR method that most people are familiar with from viral testing, the researchers found Mycena in samples of living trees in forests, meadows and Arctic mountain heaths around the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

People wander in empty stone corridors or across blasted heaths, surveyed at crooked angles or from above to emphasize their alienation from one another.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

Over the last 70 years, 98% of wildflower meadows in England and Wales have been destroyed; three-quarters of ponds and heaths have vanished; half the remaining fragments of ancient woods have been obliterated.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020

During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee