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The world's peatlands hold twice as much carbon as all its forests, but exploitation has destroyed a fifth of them. Now scientists are using pioneering moss transplants and flooding to restore their natural function

The mystery of the museum-dwelling mammals that fluoresce like platypus, plus sending letters to the sun and some very shouty songbirds, in Feedback’s weekly round-up

Polls show that climate change has rocketed up the priority list for the public, but there is still a lot of work to do, says Adam Corner

The coronavirus will continue to evolve and could trigger further waves of infections, requiring more vaccinations and boosters

A new glut of non-fiction books promises to inspire us to discover the world - and protect

The go-to advice for effective dieting is to choose food that is marketed as healthy and is low in calories, carbs and fat – but the way we think about such meals might actually cause us to gain weight

Naturalist and ant expert Edward O. Wilson, who died on 26 December, made at least five seminal contributions to ecology and was passionate about finding a more sustainable way for humans to live on Earth

Are you thinking about going green in 2022? Cutting your personal carbon footprint can help, but it is important to engage with others and encourage wider efforts to tackle climate change, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe

Will governments finally take action to halt the devastating biodiversity crisis at the COP15 meeting in Kunming, China, in April?

Around a dozen missions to the moon are scheduled in 2022, along with a rover landing on Mars and a spacecraft headed to in-vestigate the metal asteroid Psyche

The Large Hadron Collider has been in a coincidental lockdown during the pan-demic for planned up-grades, but it will soon be back online and hunting for new physics

Conservationists are reintroducing threatened mammals to their former ranges with fences to keep out cats and foxes

Governments are drafting new laws to protect your privacy online, but are people even that bothered about companies using their data?

Common bottlenose dolphins identify themselves with a unique call, but these whistles may carry extra information through variations in volume

Amenhotep I ruled Egypt from around 1525 to 1504 BC and his pristine mummy has never been unwrapped, but CT scans have now allowed us to peer inside

After numerous delays, the biggest space telescope ever has blasted off on Christmas Day, and will begin its science mission in mid 2022

Academics in Afghanistan were thriving before the shock takeover by the Taliban this year, which saw many researchers leave the country and universities closed

Treatments like sotrovimab, molnupiravir and Paxlovid could lead to a new strategy in 2022: tackling covid-19 soon after infection to prevent severe symptoms from developing

Sound engineers used custom-made artificial intelligence to strip out unwanted audio from footage of the band in the studio

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