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The Carbon Takeback Obligation requires fossil fuel extractors and importers to dispose safely and permanently of a rising fraction of the CO2 they generate. Credit: Shutterstock.

Affordable policy which could stop fossil fuels causing global warming - report

Climate change
Social Sciences
True Planet
A huge poll of nearly 700,000 people, the G20 Peoples’ Climate Vote, shows public demand for climate action

G20 Peoples’ Climate Vote: Large majority back action

Climate change
Environment
Social Sciences
True Planet
parallels in that people in the 18th century were paranoid about the effects of novels, and that has come full circle in some of the discussions about content warnings and the effect of fiction on young people’s psyches

Pride or Prejudice? New radio documentary explores debates over novel reading

Humanities
The Carbon Engineering Direct Air Capture carbon capture plant, Squamish, Canada. According to Professor Allen, Investment is urgently needed into safer, permanent CO2 disposal. Credit: Shutterstock.

Why Net Zero (and what is it?)

Climate change
Environment
True Planet
Learning about ‘forms of resistance or rebellion by enslaved peoples’ is given equal prominence to lessons about the development of the slave trade or the campaigns in England for its abolition

History teaching has substantially changed to address diversity, say teachers

Humanities
Mr Sekra visiting Oxford

Oldest professorship in philosophy renamed after 400th anniversary donation

Humanities
An image depicting human heart cells, which have been programmed to develop from stem cells. Muscle is highlighted in red, while cell nuclei are shown in blue.

Drug could help diabetic hearts recover after heart attack - Oxford research

Diabetes
Research
Aerial photo showing how deforestation is used to make way for palm oil plantations

More inclusive and coherent global action on deforestation urgently needed

Environment
Research
True Planet
And in the same way that governments make new five-yearly climate targets under the Paris Agreement, financial institutions (as well as companies and other non-state actors) should be asked to do the same

Net-zero transition planning should be mandatory across the economy

Expert opinion
Structural study of antibiotic opens the way for new TB treatments

Largest ever global study of tuberculosis identifies genetic causes of drug resistance

Health
Medical Sciences
Research
Society

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