- Oxygen isotopes in stalagmites in a Serbian cave provides information about 2 500 years of weather. The data shows that the strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming.
- A court case over whether to allow Shell (SHEL.L) to explore for oil and gas off South Africa’s pristine Wild Coast has been delayed until 2024.
- Brazil’s Vale launches a company named Agera to sell sand from iron ore tailings to reduce its disposal in tailings dams or stockpiles in Minas Gerais. Changing mined sand from waste to a construction product and contributing to the circular economy.
- Green neighbourhoods are associated with longer telomere length ( ends of chromosomes), important markers of biological age.