Experts in environmental and human health from the University of Plymouth’s newly-established Centre of Environmental Hepatology are investigating whether the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in the liver is directly contributing to the soaring global rates of liver disease.

The vast majority of environmental claims from the animal agricultural industry are misleading “greenwashing” that relies on vague promises or projections, according to a study published April 22, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Maya Bach and Jennifer Jacquet from the University of Miami, United States, and colleagues.

This week, the Netherlands, together with Colombia, is organising an important international climate summit in Santa Marta, Colombia. For the first time, the phasing out of fossil fuels is the central focus, a topic now even more prominent due to the war in the Middle East. Twelve climate researchers affiliated with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are presenting a policy brief for a just and feasible fossil fuel phase-out at this summit. ‘This is not a utopia, but an international obligation and economically and practically feasible.’

Discover how a “Nature Positive” approach can halt and reverse the global decline in biodiversity and help to prevent the destabilization of Earth’s systems that support human well-being.

The study, published in the British Psychological Society’s scientific journal Psychology and Psychotherapy, highlights the emotional cost experienced by relatives, with many describing their grief at the loss of the person they had once known. Others described the burden of caring responsibilities because of the cognitive and physical damage to their loved on, while some talked about their guilt at not having stopped the treatment from happening.

New research in Contemporary Economic Policy reveals that generative artificial intelligence tools like GitHub Copilot may lead to more, not fewer, jobs in the software engineering workforce.