5 October 2022
My late wife was an environmentalist and wanted an eco-friendly funeral. I have seen to her wishes, but a woodland burial isn't possible for all those who would like one, writes Graham Lawton
5 October 2022
The UK government’s bid to slash environmental protections is an onslaught on nature and the laws that protect it. We are angry, and we are not alone, says RSPB chief executive Beccy Speight
5 October 2022
Regardless of how much you are eating, constant snacking could be playing havoc with your metabolism. It is time to go back to proper meals
4 October 2022
Satellite measurement should reveal just how much potent greenhouse gas was released by the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, but for now the estimates put it in the order of hundreds of millions of cubic metres
4 October 2022
The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide stressful events
4 October 2022
The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
3 October 2022
The destruction caused by Hurricane Ian has left 600,000 Florida homes without power and many without clean water after the storm battered Florida, Cuba and the US east coast
3 October 2022
Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics
1 October 2022
The outer solar system holds some chunks of ice and rock that orbit so far from the sun it’s hard to imagine how they got there – but an ancient rogue planet may hold the key
30 September 2022
Neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory may be 10 per cent larger in superagers than others aged 80 or over
