The national tegelwippen contest seeks to restore greenery and help the Netherlands meet its climate targets Move over, football. The Netherlands has a new national sport, one helping to greenify ...

Zurich – Switzerland’s sleek financial capital – has been hailed the world’s best example of a 15-mintute city. According to a new study, 99.2% of its residents live within a 15-minute walk of key ...

What to say (and what not) and how to help someone who has survived sexual assault, including organisations that can help You don’t need to be an expert in sexual violence to lend a caring, supportive ...

Time magazine has named a 15-year-old scientist ‘Kid of the Year’ after he devised a skin cancer-treating soap Heman Bekele, a 15-year-old from Virginia, US, has been honoured by Time magazine for his ...

When the second world war ended, a group of RAF personnel resolved to do something positive with their newly honed skills. This led to the founding of a charity that’s now the world’s largest ...

Readers, authors and independent booksellers are set to benefit from a secondhand buy-back book scheme, billed as a ‘sustainable alternative to Amazon’ A buy-back scheme for used books has launched, ...

Schoolchildren are among those to have already tasted the results of the Plymouth Fish Finger Project, made using locally caught species that are usually discarded or used as bait Eccles has its cake, ...

It’s easy to slip into generalisations about kindness – but what if we looked at the concept more deeply? We all know that it’s good to do nice things, but have you ever thought about what change ...

The organisers of this week's Good Clothes Show hope to bridge the gap between pop culture and sustainable fashion We may all have committed fashion misfires at some point, and mistakes are ...

The annual contest celebrates birds’ beauty and supports their conservation. Read the stories behind 10 winning shots A tobogganing penguin, balletic goldfinch and a Peregrine Falcon fledgling ...

On the north Devon coast in England, 90 hectares of newly created rare wildflower meadows have come into bloom this summer Newly created rare wildflower meadows have bloomed for the first time this ...

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, which this year focuses on the workplace, what’s been effective for you? Work, for many people, is something of a double-edged sword. It can be great for our mental ...