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22 February 2023

TOPSHOT - A woman walks on a bridge during the fires in Renaico, Araucania region, Chile on February 4, 2023. - At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said Saturday night. (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)

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Stolen Climate: Global perspectives of fire on Earth unites artists and scientists to explore wildfires in history and ecology, with a preview of art by Clinton Naina. It runs from 3.30pm GMT on 1 March at Science Gallery London.

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The Human Evolutionary Transition is the name Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda and Johan Lind give in their new book to the rise of the uniquely strange and powerful human intelligence. On sale from 28 February.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 29: Australia's former prime minister Julia Gillard hosts a session entitled "The Power of Education" on the second day of the Global Education Summit on July 29, 2021 in London, England. Co-hosted by the United Kingdom and Kenya the Global Education Summit aims to raise investment for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to help transform education for the most vulnerable children in up to 90 lower-income countries and territories around the world. (Photo by Tolga Akmen-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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