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2021: A turning point in the fight against the climate crisis?
From floods to tornadoes and extreme droughts, it’s been another tumultuous year for the environment.
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Omicron appears to be milder than other variants, says geneticist
We spoke to Professor Francois Balloux, a geneticist at University College London, and started by asking how hopeful we should be about early research suggesting Omicron being a milder variant.
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Very unlikely current vaccines protection will be completely ineffective against Omicron variant, says JCVI member
We were joined by Professor John Edmunds, a member of the government’s SAGE group of scientific advisors and models, and Professor Adam Finn, who’s on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
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More than 50 countries miss WHO vaccination target, raising concerns over vaccine inequality
The UN has said that early evidence shows the global risk from the Omicron variant is “very high”.
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Potential for ‘some immune evasion’ in Omicron Covid variant, UN senior researcher says
We spoke to Dr Vicky Baillie, a senior researcher at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Analytics research unit at Wits University in South Africa.
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Will it be Covid protests and compulsory jabs for Christmas?
On today’s Fourcast, our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald explains why Covid cases are rising in Europe and asks whether the compulsory jab mandates seen on the continent are coming to our shores next.
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Climate jihad: how a changing planet fuels terrorism
Conflict over diminishing resources is driving jihadi violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Today, our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports on her recent trip to Niger.
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What’s in the COP26 deal – and will it save humanity?
COP26 was billed as our last chance to save the planet from climate catastrophe. To keep 1.5 alive. So did world governments rise to the challenge?
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COP26: How indigenous people have struggled to find accommodation
Glasgow might have thrown open its doors to the rest of the world here at COP26, but in reality the sheer struggle with visas, vaccinations and intercontinental travel have stopped some people getting here at all.
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Niger: How the climate crisis is fuelling war
Drought, floods, net zero – all of these are dominating the agenda in Glasgow. But one burning issue that’s receiving less attention at COP26 is how climate change is already fuelling conflict.
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Climate change ‘a more durable challenge’ than Covid, says Vallance
We spoke to the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and asked him if climate change is a bigger challenge for us than Covid.
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COP26: The crunch points in the negotiations
What are the crunch points in these sprawling negotiations, which have been described by one weary delegate as like playing three- dimensional chess with spaghetti?
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World heading for catastrophic 2.4C of warming, despite COP26 pledges
There’s not much time, and a mountain to climb: that’s the message to leaders at the COP26 summit here in Glasgow, where the president of the talks Alok Sharma has urged countries to set even more ambitious goals, to have any chance of keeping global warming in check.
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COP26: ‘The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible’, says artist behind forest installation
With the world leaders now gone, discussions are spreading across Glasgow, including this building, which is host to the New York Times Climate Hub, where we are an affiliate broadcaster.
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Is carbon offsetting any more than ‘greenwashing’?
There is a furious debate around the merits of carbon offsetting, which allows businesses to ostensibly cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon credits elsewhere.