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Chimpanzee on tree (Credit: Getty Images)
Climate change

The chimps adapting to climate change

By Alexander Piel, Erin G Wessling and Fiona Stewart

Gum arabic has been traded for millennia across this arid region, and the Sahel is where some of the highest quality gum comes from (Credit: Reuters)
Future Planet
The ancient gum holding back the desert
By Soumaila Diarra
Are we at a turning point in history? (Credit: Getty Images)
Deep Civilisation
Are we living at the hinge of history?
By Richard Fisher
The young, thin Arctic ice is darker and less reflective than the thick, white, old ice – pushing the Arctic into a feedback cycle of warming (Credit: Martha Henriques)
Future Planet
The plan to scatter glass in the Arctic
By Katya Zimmer
The Greenwich Peninsula Low-Carbon Energy Centre uses a district heating system to lower carbon emissions from heating (Credit: CF Møller Architects/Mark Hadden)
Future Planet

What 'net-zero carbon' really means

By Francesca Perry

Covid-19

The political handling of the swine flu fiasco had elements of farce (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
The warp-speed vaccine plan that failed
By Richard Fisher
Woman receiving vaccination (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
The unintended benefits of vaccination
By Zaria Gorvett
Syringe and hand (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
How vaccines have shaped our world

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