10 awe-inspiring walks around the UK

Scientists found weekly ‘awe walks’ led to more positive emotions among study participants - here are some of the nation’s most wondrous locations

Turn up the heat and get a work box: nine ways to improve your home working routine

Need inspiration? Follow these tips on working from home for the long haul

We’ve got to start thinking beyond our own lifespans if we’re going to avoid extinction

Short-term analysis of ways to save society, and indeed humanity, is useless

My idea of happiness? A strimmer and a bramble-choked path

Someone needs to clean up Britain’s overgrown footpaths – and it might as well be me

Ditch the gloves, buy a litter-picker, but don’t carshare! How to be eco-friendly in a pandemic

Can you wash your disposable mask at 20C – and should we still be going for reusable coffee cups? Experts answer your environmental dilemmas

I ran away to a remote Scottish isle. It was perfect

Crowded out of the city by noise and stress, I embraced the wild solitude of a Hebridean island – and found a connection to nature

Tree of the week: ‘Our olive tree is very expressive. It tells you when it’s thirsty’

In a weekly series, readers tell us about their favourite trees. This week: an olive in a small Californian orchard

My local park is a space where I can be alone – and feel part of the community

I can hear the flap of birds’ wings. The crunch of gravel underfoot. Gone, though, is the chatter and scraping of chairs in cafes

The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith review – unwinding with nature

A life-affirming study of the pleasures of tending a plot or garden and soothing your mind

Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food

An ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’