How I survived Chernobyl
Sasha Yuvchenko was working at the power plant on the night of the world's worst nuclear disaster. One of his workmates was vaporised and three others died within weeks. Vivienne Parry hears his terrible tale.
Health warning for hot days
The government will publish advice today on how to cope in a heatwave, to avoid a repetition of last year when an extra 2,0000 people died in 10 days in England alone.
Briton sues US giant over ‘uranium poison’
Landmark court case could establish critical link for Gulf war veterans.
Brain warning over chemicals
Child development 'at risk from flame retardants'.
Revealed: how food firms target children
Methods used by the food industry to target children have been uncovered by the Guardian on the day MPs publish a damning account of the government's 'woefully inadequate' response to obesity. By Felicity Lawrence.
Food firms go all the way to No 10 in fight over what we eat
Letters, lunches, dinners, briefings. Felicity Lawrence and Rob Evans reveal how the food industry is lobbying relentlessly to steer ministers away from regulation in the war against obesity.
Families’ lives poisoned by crop spraying
Pesticides industry and Government accused of risking the health of hundreds of thousands of people living near farms.
Jowell rules out curbs on junk food adverts
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell will rule out new curbs on advertising junk foods to children in a speech to the advertising industry today, in which she is expected to call for voluntary action to tackle the crisis of obesity instead. By Felicity Lawrence.