UN scientists have announced we are in a ‘now or never’ situation to fix climate change. We spoke with Ian Bateman, professor of environmental economics at the University of Exeter about the IPCC report, and why wind and solar power might be better than nuclear.

Plus - two notebooks owned by Charles Darwin that went missing in 2001, have been anonymously returned to the Cambridge University Library. We spoke with a Cambridge University librarian about how significant the notebooks are.

Also in this episode:

• The Royal Mint to create first ever NFT + UK gov to regulate stablecoins (2.50)
• Axiom to launch the world’s first all-private space mission to the ISS (3.24)
• US Palaeontology professor’s new theory on T-rex’s small arms (4.10)
• Study finally proves birds are more colourful near the equator (4.44)
• Date set for launch of electric Delorean concept car (5.21)

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