From Jenna Orkin

Enjoy It While You Can: Dropping Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth

Georgia election workers fired for allegedly shredding hundreds of voter registration forms

EPA head says he’ll act on climate even if Congress doesn’t

A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world

Scientists hope a new kind of perennial grain, Kernza, offers a taste of what environmentally friendly farming could look like.

China Coal Futures Surge to Record as Flood Swamps Mine Hub

China says it carried out beach landing drills amid tensions with Taiwan

Czech voters oust communists from parliament for first time since 1948

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Snow weather: Brits face November freeze as ‘polar vortex collapse’ to send temperatures PLUMMETING

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world study of 23 million people

Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell secretly plotted against Trump to undermine his election-fraud claims, book says

China appears set to ban reporting by news outlets not directly funded by the Communist Party, in a further blow to free speech

California is banning gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and weed trimmers — and offering rebates for switching to zero-emission tools

China's bond market slides as Evergrande's 3rd missed payment hammers the property sector, while smaller rivals scramble to avoid default

Britain's largest port, which handles nearly 40% of all containers, is facing a massive backlog of ships as it approaches its busiest time of year: the holiday season

The logjam is due, in part, to a shortage of drivers certified to operate heavy goods vehicles, known as HGV drivers. It may need to turn ships away.