Enviro Health

Scent of a Human
Are you wearing deodorant? If the answer's yes, you've been had by one of the greatest cons in advertising history.

Is planting trees stupid?
It's Arbor Week: new trees are being gleefully set to work all over, sucking planet-heating carbon from the air. That's nice, say critics, but it won't save us from climate hell.

Oil junkies
Lay off British Petroleum for just a moment. That spreading stain in the Gulf of Mexico is your fault too.

The habit of killing
Customs like bull-killing aren’t just hard luck for animals. Hanging on to old outdated ways can be very bad for us too.

Meat is the Main Event
It's World Vegetarian Month 2010, and 'vegheads' are still a minority. Why can't vegetarianism attract more converts? Is it because meat-eaters think they're having all the fun?

The real road warriors
On 22 May local cyclists joined thousands internationally, riding in solemn silence through city streets to commemorate fallen comrades. But do bicycles really belong on the roads?

A lighter shade of brown
Forget the old ethnic demarcators. All people are brown, some are just browner than others.

Are your kids biophiliacs?
To save life, first you have to learn love it deeply.