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PM’s future openly questioned by Tory figures after Covid party saga … smart motorway rollout suspended … saving the world, one vasectomy at a time

Letter: <strong>Laura Cunningham </strong>on how a glucose monitor has enabled her to manage her type 1 diabetes and improve her quality of life

KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian talks with behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz about his new book ‘ Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less .’

Most of us live busy lives. Between emails, texts, work, family, and friends, it’s easy to get bombarded by obligations and invitations. It’s also easy to have the tendency to say “yes,” even when we can’t or shouldn’t.

Last modified on Wed 4 Aug 2021 04.02 EDT Last month we reported on how Britain – trusting in its high vaccination rate to lift Covid restrictions despite surging Delta variant cases – was increasingly seen by the world as a test case for pandemic control. It’s early days and the data is not yet full enough to paint a clear picture, but as cases suddenly began to fall last week, scientists and politicians were asking if the country might have made a significant breakthrough. The Observer...

Top story: wildlife could hold key to saving habitats Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are today’s top stories. Species such as elephants and wolves should be reintroduced to help restore ecologies ravaged by human development, scientists say, after research revealed that only 3% of the world’s land habitats remain properly intact. The remaining fragments of wilderness where flora and fauna remain unspoiled are mainly in parts of...