The big idea: is going vegan enough to make you – and the planet – healthier?
Simply avoiding meat and dairy isn’t going to cut it if you still turn to ultra-processed foods
Country diary: The hair-trigger pigeons are up again, more dance than flight
Brighton, East Sussex: How many times a day do they do this? How do they decide who goes first?
‘It’s mind-boggling’: the hidden cost of our obsession with fish oil pills
The market in this prized commodity is worth billions – but are the supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems?
Revealed: many common omega-3 fish oil supplements are ‘rancid’
Independent tests find that a number of products on the market use oxidised oils, with the rancidity often masked by flavourings
Noises off: the battle to save our quiet places
We wouldn’t condone litter in our parks and countryside, so why do we put up with sound pollution? Alex Moshakis meets the people tasked with ‘saving quiet for the benefit of all life’ and hears their stories
Toxic reaction: how to clear dangerous pollutants out of your home
After tests revealed the levels of harmful chemicals in her blood, the environmental writer vowed to discover the best ways to keep her family safe
Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find
Exclusive: Impacts include premature births and birth defects and affect everybody, everywhere, say researchers
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …
Contact with nature in cities reduces loneliness, study shows
Loneliness is significant mental health concern and can raise risk of death by 45%, say scientists
Proximity to green space may help with PMS, study finds
Research adds to growing evidence of the health benefits associated with natural environments