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Sustainability on a Shoestring | Environment

The least polluting way to shower

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Editor's Picks

"The threats can come from anywhere at any time," says Amelia Paye, a former farmer who has been a community health worker in Gipo since 2016 (Credit: Peter Yeung)

How to spot the next pandemic

By Peter Yeung

Hands on multi-coloured electronic screen (Credit: Yiu Yu Hoi/Getty Images)

'I was diagnosed autistic at 60'

By Sue Nelson

Smog envelopes much of Northern India in the autumn and winter months, blanketing cities in polluted air that comes with extensive health risks (Credit: Getty Images)

The world's most polluted capital city

By Kamala Thiagarajan

The city of Almere was designed with the help of games that helped identify the infrastructure and street layout that residents wanted (Credit: Pavlo Glazkov/Alamy)

The city designed by playing games

By Norman Miller

If a child has learned not to cry on waking, parents may mistakenly believe that she's slept through the night (Credit: Getty Images)

What happens when babies ‘cry it out’

By Amanda Ruggeri

Covid-19

There is growing evidence that children are suffering from the affects of long Covid but in ways that may be different to adults (Credit: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)

How long Covid is affecting children

By David Cox

Test tube and solution (Credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images)

Why Covid tests make you feel ill

By David Robson

MRI image of the brain (Credit: Alamy)

Immune Response

What Covid-19 could do to our brains

By David Cox

Israel has vaccinated more than half of 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid-19 – and even some younger children who are at special risk (Credit: Reuters)

Should young kids get the Covid-19 jab?

By Josie Glausiusz

Geology

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How the next 'supercontinent' will form

Taste of Tomorrow

2

Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday

Future Planet

3

The Caribbean mangrove forest that defied destruction

Coming Clean

4

Why 'bio' and 'green' don't mean what you think

The Immortality Project

5

The gardens that have survived for centuries

The Immortality Project

6

How to turn yourself into a fossil

Future Planet

7

How waste food can reduce our reliance on natural gas

Get the Facts

8

The people cloning their pets

State of Play

9

The jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years