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Holmes alone: the fall of Theranos
What the unravelling of a once Silicon superstar tells us about the world of start-ups and high-level investors.
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Novak Djokovic’s visa battle ‘allowed the anti-vax movement to create a momentum’, says Australian Labour MP
I spoke to the Australian Labour MP Dr Anne Aly, who’s a member of the parliamentary law enforcement committee.
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Last seven years hottest ever recorded, say EU scientists
As the world’s climate heats up, many species are moving north for their survival, with rare bats now thriving in the south of England.
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Rewilding: Farmers could be paid to restore natural habitats under government plans
Farmers in England could get paid thousands of pounds for rewilding land or abandoning intensive farming for wildlife friendly land management.
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UK reports nearly 190,000 new daily Covid cases
Covid figures have risen to record levels yet again – almost 190,000 new daily cases – while there’s been another rise in the number of patients admitted to hospital. More than a dozen hospitals say they’re temporarily banning most visitors to protect patients and staff from infection. Stressing the importance of getting fully vaccinated, the…
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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.