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Beach cleans aren’t just good for the sea – they can boost your mental health and encourage better behaviour
I love exploring the shoreline. I wander along my local Devon beach at least once a week, and my cur...
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Too much lactate can harm our health – these microbes in our gut keep it in check
Lactate will be familiar to many due to a common belief that it causes muscle “burn” following exerc...
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Slow-moving sloths will struggle to adapt quickly to climate change – new study
Sloths are more vulnerable to the rising temperatures associated with climate change than other mamm...
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Chagos Islands: how to ensure their coral reefs aren’t damaged as they return to Mauritius
The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius...
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Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both
Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal...
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Sex machina: in the wild west world of human-AI relationships, the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk
Chris excitedly posts family pictures from his trip to France. Brimming with joy, he starts gushing ...
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Ultra-processed foods: we have the technology to turn them from foe into friend
Ultra-processed foods are the latest nutritional villains, associated with several diseases of the m...
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Despite progress on poverty, Mexico’s first female president inherits a shaky economy
Mexico’s first female president, leftwing academic and climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, has set ...
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How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine
When the Paris agreement on climate change was gavelled into being in December 2015, it briefly look...
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Sex machina: inside the wild west world of human-AI relationships, where the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk
Chris excitedly posts family pictures from his trip to France. Brimming with joy, he starts gushing ...
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Why isometric exercises are so good for you
Exercise is great for improving heart health. But the thought of hitting the gym or going for a jog ...
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How to recognise burnout – and what to do if you’re affected
Emily, a finance manager, has been working 60-hour weeks for several months to meet deadlines. She s...
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Opt-out laws designed to make organ donation easier may have actually made it harder, says research
In 2020, England introduced an opt-out system for organ donation with the aim of making it easier fo...
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Tackling the UK’s housing crisis means addressing one key problem: affordability
The UK government has serious ambition when it comes to solving England’s housing crisis. Shortly af...
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As an ethical hacker, I can’t believe the risks people routinely take when they access the internet in public
In the modern world we are all constantly connected, but this comes with risks. As most cybersecurit...
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Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions
In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate...
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Why it’s so hard to kick fossil fuels out of sport
Governments and public relations firms are under pressure to, in UN secretary-general António Guterr...
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Devolving justice and policing to Wales would put it on par with Scotland and Northern Ireland – so what’s holding it back?
Devolution is “a process, not an event”, according to the then-secretary of state for Wales, Ron Dav...
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Mounjaro will soon be available as a weight loss treatment on the NHS – here’s what that means for patients
The weight loss jab Mounjaro will soon be made available to nearly a quarter of a million NHS patien...
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Why a pilot scheme removing peak rail fares should have been allowed to go the distance
Commuters in Scotland faced a shock at ticket machines as the Scottish government abandoned a pilot ...
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Whale sharks on collision course as warming seas may force them into shipping lanes – new study
Global warming has the potential to reshuffle the spaces used by life on Earth, across all ecosystem...
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Chagos islands: what the UK-Mauritius agreement means for displaced Chagossians
After years of negotiations and legal pressure, the UK and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed tha...
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