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An attendee during the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Climate negotiators at the COP26 summit were banking on the worlds most powerful leaders to give them a boost before they embark on two weeks of fraught discussions over who should do what to slow the rise in global temperatures. Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What difference will the COP26 climate summit make?

16 November 2021

Despite last-minute changes, the final agreement made at COP26 still amounts to an important ratcheting up of climate ambition
CN668E White-tailed Deer Buck in Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee

How worried should we be about covid-19 spreading among wild animals?

11 November 2021

Studies in the US have revealed a "silent epidemic" of human coronavirus in wild white-tailed deer and it could be circulating in other wild animals in other parts of the world
A psilocybin therapy trial therapy room.

Psilocybin therapy steps closer to credibility with largest trial yet

10 November 2021

Promising results from a psilocybin trial suggest that psychedelic therapies for depression could help some – but not all – people who don't respond to conventional antidepressants

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