The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020
1 January 2020
Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020
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Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions
27 December 2019
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account
Oil spills could be cleaned up by giving local microbes extra genes
24 December 2019
Equipping local bacteria with enzymes for breaking down hydrocarbons could be a much-needed cheap and eco-friendly way to tackle oil spills
Potatoes engineered to harm a major pest but leave other insects safe
22 December 2019
Biologists have used a gene silencing approach to engineer potatoes to be lethal to a major pest called the Colorado potato beetle but harmless to other species
Ozone hole recovery will probably be delayed by banned gas from China
19 December 2019
The recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica looks likely to be delayed at least two years by the illegal production of an ozone-destroying gas in China
