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Want to follow an eco-friendly diet, but not sure how? Wondering if a sustainable way of eating will shrink your waistline or leave you feeling hungry? Well, here’s a plan that is packed with tasty, wholesome meals to fill you up and help you stay slim – all while helping to reduce your impact on the environment. ‘By following a climatarian diet focused on plant-based foods and rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, you can eat until you’re comfortably satisfied and still lose about 2-3lb a week – even more depending on how much weight you have to lose,’ says Dr Alona Pulde of nutrition app Lifesum*. How the climatarian diet works This plan, created by Lifesum, has been made using environmentally-friendly choices, while limiting the foods that…

Imagine for a moment that something was poisoning Britain’s water supply. Imagine that 97 per cent of the population was drinking and bathing in this water every single day, unknowingly letting toxins accumulate in their bodies and the bodies of their children. Most survive, but the poisoned water is linked to as many as 64,000 deaths every single year, while lowering the life quality of thousands more. Rightly, if this situation arose, the scandal would be enormous. The government would issue apologies, the news would go global and calls for compensation would be almost immediate. What doesn’t take any imagination is applying the same scenario to the air. Every day millions of people in the UK breathe in unsafe levels of toxic air – yet the issue barely registers on the government’s…

Fungi often appear naturally around trees, but a new study has found that growing edible mushrooms in forests on purpose could be a good way to provide healthy food for millions of people – and help the environment too. Fungi are living things that feed on organic matter, such as dead plants. Mushrooms, mould and yeast are all types of fungi. Paul Thomas and Alistair Jump, from the University of Stirling in Scotland, spent two years studying edible fungi (types that can be safely eaten) that grow alongside trees. The pair discovered that while they are growing, fungi remove carbon dioxide (a type of gas) from the air and store it in the soil. This is good for the planet, because too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one…