Junk Food Is Ruining Your Brain’s Fat Calendar

Your body keeps track of time in ways you never really notice. Beyond sleep and wake cycles, it responds to seasonal cues. New research suggests dietary fat plays a role in that timing, acting as a biological signal that helps the brain interpret the season. Certain processed fats appear to interfer...

Cop30, Trump and the fragile future of climate cooperation

Cop30, Trump and the fragile future of climate cooperation

In this week’s newsletter: From geopolitics to populism, multilateralism is under pressure – but climate action cannot succeed in a fractured world• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereJanuary might seem a bit too early to propose a word of the year, but I know mine ...

How to get your dream job in 2026

How to get your dream job in 2026

Work consumes around a third of our waking hours during the weekday. Yet, according to Gallup, nearly a third of employees are disengaged.  80,000 Hours, a London-based nonprofit that helps people find the best career fit for themselves, reviewed 60 studies on dream jobs and found that a dream job ...

UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union

UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union

RMT estimates six cleaning, security and catering suppliers made £150m profits last year Railway leaders should “think afresh” about outsourcing contracts and try to run services better, the rail minister has said, as union research indicated six major private suppliers made £150m in profits l...