Volume 574 Issue 7777

Editorials

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Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has struggled to live up to its promises on the environment. Whoever wins the coming election can and must do better.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03009-1

p.150

The champion of India’s freedom movement was an innovator and supporter of sustainable science.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03010-8

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Researchers are assessing the environmental risks posed by a dam on the Nile. The countries involved should let them finish the job.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03029-x

News

p.157

Disappointment as World Health Organization pushes back target date for eradication to 2030.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02921-w

p.158

Sharing data with external social scientists is proving technically difficult, but researchers aren’t giving up yet.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02966-x

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The Renaissance Dam project has sparked a dispute over Ethiopia’s development needs, versus Egypt’s concerns over water scarcity and climate change.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02987-6

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Improved understanding of conditions in the stratosphere are helping to produce more-accurate short-term climate forecasts.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02985-8

p.161

William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza share the award for discoveries that are crucial for understanding diseases such as cancer.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02963-0

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Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, share award with theoretical cosmologist James Peebles.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02964-z

News Features

p.163

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03013-5

News & Views

p.180

Tree-dwelling birds can land on perches that vary in size and texture. Force measurements and video-footage analysis now reveal that birds rely on rapid and robust adjustments of their toe pads and claws to land stably.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02959-w

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doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02973-y

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The foods used to supplement or replace breast milk in infants’ diets in prehistoric times aren’t fully understood. The finding that ancient feeding vessels from Europe had residues of animal milk offers a clue.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02805-z

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The impact of fungi on human health is under-studied and underappreciated. One genus of fungus, Malassezia, has now been linked to the progression of pancreatic cancer.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02892-y

p.185

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02972-z

Perspective

p.187

doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1629-x

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