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Editor's note
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By 2050, the UK needs to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero, according to a major new report. Sustainable finance expert Aled Jones looks at whether such a goal is achievable, while Joe Blakey and Marc Hudson argue the target is misleading as it doesn’t factor in emissions the UK effectively exports to other countries. Meanwhile, an expert explains how his fears of climate change turned him from researcher to film
maker.
British MP Gavin Williamson was sacked as defence secretary over a leaked report that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will help build the UK’s 5G network. The controversy reflects wider fears in the West that Huawei will be used by the Chinese government to spy on them. But, Howard Yu cautions, Britain and others should not be so quick to cut Huawei out of their tech infrastructure plans.
The number of people with an extra bone in their body (the fabella, found at the back of the knee) has increased more than threefold since 1990, scientists revealed recently. But this isn’t the only supernumerary structure in the human body. Adam Taylor describes cases in the medical literature of people with 19 extra teeth and others with seven nipples.
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Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
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Top story
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The emissions from this tanker don’t count towards the UK’s emissions target.
Rosli Othman/Shutterstock
Joe Blakey, University of Manchester; Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
Contrary to the advice of the UK's climate advisers, aiming for net zero before 2050 is credible – but the country must reassess how much its future is worth.
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EPA-EFE/Dan Himbrechts
Howard Yu, IMD Business School
Cutting Huawei out of the picture would limit Western access to new, state-of-the art technology.
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The red arrow points to the fabella.
Jmarchn and Mikael Häggström/Wikimedia Commons
Adam Taylor, Lancaster University
Some people have extra fingers, others have missing muscles.
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Environment + Energy
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Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University
The UK's Committee on Climate Change recommends the country commits to net zero greenhouse gases by 2050.
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James Dyke, University of Exeter
We're running out of time – so we can't leave it all to Greta Thunburg and David Attenborough.
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Joanne Preston, University of Portsmouth
Coral reefs get a lot of attention, but the world has lost almost all of its vital oyster reefs in the last few centuries.
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Arts + Culture
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Natasha Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University
We've watched the youngest Stark daughter grow from a tomboy to a trained killer. Now she's come into her own.
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Hector Gonzalez-Jimenez, University of York
By acquiring knowledge of other places and people, travel can make us more peaceful in our interactions with others.
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Politics + Society
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Catherine McNamara, University of Portsmouth
Violence against LGBTQ people in Brazil is at an all-time high, but artists refuse to be intimidated.
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Becky Thompson, Nottingham Trent University; Andromachi Tseloni, Nottingham Trent University; James Hunter, Nottingham Trent University; Nick Tilley, UCL; Puneet Tiwari, Nottingham Trent University
New analysis reveals the most common types of anti-social behaviour, and who the victims are.
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Cities
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Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University
Not all of the solutions to the climate and ecological crisis have to be painful.
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