Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake and its largest by volume, formed more than 25 million years ago. As a result, the lake is full of plants and animals that have evolved to thrive in these deep, cold conditions and are found nowhere else in the world. However, Baikal is in southern Siberia, one of the fastest-warming regions on earth. Anson Mackay and George Swann say this means the lake is warming too fast for its ecosystem to adapt.

Most of us have turned to food at times of stress or sadness but while it may make us happy in the short term, in the long run it can affect our health. Some researchers argue that emotional eating like this comes from not being able to properly regulate our emotions. Now, they have found that when people can’t regulate their emotions it can both directly and indirectly affect weight and BMI.

Local newspaper journalism may well be in decline, but the industry has had a lasting impact on many British towns and cities. Victorian Britain had such an appetite for local news, explains Andrew Hobbs, that prominent public buildings including libraries, meeting halls and even pubs were specifically designed to provide spaces where people could catch up on current affairs.

Let’s hear it for phosphorus, an essential component of everything from DNA to, er, Sarin gas. It’s 350 years since a wild-eyed German alchemist looking for the elixir of life in a bucket of urine discovered this highly combustible element instead. Petr Kilian looks at how phosphorus helped to shape modern chemistry – and is now very worryingly running out.

Yesterday proved another dramatic day in the Brexit story. Follow all the latest developments here.

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