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Counting the heat health threat from climate change

Huge death toll from rising temperatures projected for century’s end.

• 32 mins

Putin’s Covid-19 vaccine

Despite widespread alarm, Russia is not about to roll out an untested vaccine.

• 37 mins

Trouble in Greenland

Has the loss from Greenland’s vast ice sheet reached a tipping point?

• 32 mins

Covid-19 therapy controversy

Is convalescent plasma really a ‘tremendous’ treatment for Covid-19?

• 38 mins

Nyiragongo - is Goma under threat?

More than 2 million people live around this volcano, which has become more active

• 31 mins

Covid -19 science versus politics

Are the politicians finally coming round to the scientist’s views on the way forward?

• 38 mins

Malaria resistance breakthrough

Discovered in East Africa, the finding holds promise for completely new treatments.

• 30 mins

Why Covid -19 vaccines may not stop transmission

They are only designed to prevent disease developing, none have been tested against spread

• 41 mins

Are children the biggest Covid-19 spreaders?

The world’s largest study of Covid-19 transmission shows children have a major role.

• 37 mins

Do Covid–19 mutations matter?

Results from the most detailed investigation to date into SARS –CoV-2 virus mutations

• 37 mins

Covid-19 mortality

Why is there such a range in the number of deaths from Covid -19 between countries?

• 35 mins