The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?
Neoprene is made from toxic chemicals, hard to recycle and, with 400,000 tonnes made a year, a growing problem. So can surfers and swimmers find green wetsuits?
Country diary: Cherry blossom has given way to apple blossom
St Dominic, Tamar Valley: Few insects are about, but we hope the variable and staggered blossoming times will help pollination
UK tenants should have ‘right to garden’, leading horticulturist says
Jason Williams, known as the cloud gardener, is campaigning for green spaces in new builds and rights for tenants to grow plants
‘The trout lasagne is very good!’ How I recreated six classic beef dishes – with oily fish
Replacing red meat with fish could prevent diabetes, reduce our carbon footprint and save lives. So who’s for spaghetti and fishballs?
‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment
A city of welly-wearers, Birmingham has more allotments than any other UK local authority – some of its keen plotholders tell us why
Much of England’s ‘national landscapes’ out of bounds, say campaigners
Right to Roam finds areas of outstanding natural beauty have on average poorer footpath access than rest of England
Pregnant women in Indiana show fourfold increase in toxic weedkiller in urine – study
Seventy percent of pregnant women in state had herbicide dicamba in their urine, up from 28% in an earlier study
Should I worry about microplastics?
These tiny particles are polluting the planet, including our bodies. How bad for us are they really?
I’ve made secret discoveries on my doorstep: a year-long journey across my local OS map
We have become disconnected from the wild world around us and I wanted to get regular small doses of the delights of travelling without having to wait for the trip of a lifetime
Children living near green spaces ‘have stronger bones’
Bone strength is set in childhood so better park access could prevent fractures in older people, study finds