40 consequences of 10 wet summers: what will a decade of rain do to us?
Forecasters have warned that we may need to get used to washout summers, perhaps for the next 10 years. From wildlife to camping to fashion, what will this do to us a nation?
Should we purge plastic from our lives?
A growing number of people are giving up plastic, for health or environmental reasons. So how easy is it to become a plasticarian? And what would you struggle to give up?
Turf wars escalate in the battle for Britain’s allotments
John Harris: For the past century, councils have prided themselves on giving people small patches of land to cultivate. But now, with money and land in short supply, many want to take them away
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review
George Monbiot's dream of a wilder Britain in which uplands would be cleared of sheep farming and populated with reintroduced species leaves Frances Stonor Saunders with a few questions
Electrosensitivity: is technology killing us?
Is modern life making us ill? Yes, say those who suffer from electrosensitivity. Are they cranks, asks Nicholas Blincoe, or should we all be throwing away our mobile phones?
Are pubic lice in danger of extinction?
Some doctors have suggested that modern pubic-hair grooming practices, such as the Brazilian wax, are destroying the natural habitat of Pthirus pubis
Gross national happiness in Bhutan: the big idea from a tiny state that could change the world
Bhutan measures prosperity by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the GDP. Now its ideas are attracting interest at the UN climate change conference in Doha
Pest control: why the bugs are winning
Moths in your jumpers, ants in the fruit bowl, nits in your hair: are the pests winning – or does it just feel that way? Gaby Hinsliff gets the dirt on home infestations
Climate change will extend hay fever season by six weeks, report warns
Hay fever sufferers face longer pollen seasons and highly allergenic strains from invasive plants