Competitions like Crufts encourage breeders to manipulate dogs' bodies as if they were modelling clay. Even dogs who will never set foot in a show ring suffer because of it.

What's the difference between rot and decay?

We are living without the sense of the shamanic and the transformational that our forebears found vital for survival.

As the planet warms, extreme weather is becoming a part of our daily life, but Britain is still ill-equipped to cope with the floods.

For 60 years, David Attenborough has brought the wonders of the world around us to TV viewers hungry for science and natural history. In an exclusive interview with Brian Cox and Robin Ince, he talks about the BBC, Darwin and what keeps him moving.

It's not just the west which is fighting investment in coal – grassroots campaigns in India are also calling for cleaner energy, write Guppi Bola and Chaitanya Kumar.

A reminder is that we share a habitat and a common experience with other creatures.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every day.

Michael Brooks on the misinterpretation of eye-catching research.

The city remains, for the moment, admirably wild.

Ruth Padel argues that London Zoo is a place of respite and renewal.

Inside the life of plants.

The real problem with "creationist schools" is not their attitude to science, says Nelson Jones.