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More than 11,000km of China's coastline is walled with concrete, such as here at the Yangtze estuary (Credit: Wu Wei)
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The world’s growing concrete coasts
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Unions representing workers in the US car manufacturing industry appealed for a huge multi-billion-dollar bailout in 2008 (Credit: Getty Images)
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A nuclear training exercise at Volk air base (Credit: Alamy)
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The mistakes that nearly caused WW3
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Artisinal miners in the Democratic Repulic of the Congo often work at illegal mines in dangerous conditions (Credit: Reuters)
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How the atomic bomb scarred the Congo

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A member of the Yanomami people holds a face mask during a health brigade by the Brazilian Army in Alto Alegre municipality (Credit: EPA)
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‘Covid-19 could wipe us off the map’
By Terri Hansen
Loneliness might be expected high among those who have been forced to spend lockdown in isolation by themselves, but early research suggests otherwise (Credit: Alamy)
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How lockdown may have changed you
By Christian Jarrett
The Oxford vaccine is one of the trials closest to approval for public use, thanks to the team's prior work on Mers (Credit: Dr Sean Elias)
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‘I’m part of the Oxford vaccine trial’
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