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Top: Articles on range of issues Below: Challenger-related articles
Listening to Music Most Days Could Guard Against Dementia, Study Suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
by Maggie Penman - WashPost -11-13-2025
https://wapo.st/4qYmLVM [Free gift article]
As U.S. and E.U. Retreat on Climate, China Takes the Leadership Role
As U.N. talks get underway China is emerging as a key leader in international climate efforts. It is empowering the global energy transition and along with India and Brazil is becoming the driving force in climate diplomacy and filling a vacuum left by the world’s rich nations.
by Isabel Hilton - Yale Environment 360 - 11-10-2025
https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-climate-diplomacy
For More re China’s Pursuit of an Ecological Civilization
check out my episode with James Thornton of ClientEarth
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/temcnally/episodes/2025-04-25T20_34_11-07_00
Why China will Rule Renewable Energy
And why it matters in an era of great-power rivalry
by Paul Krugman - Substack - 11-09-2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-china-will-rule-renewable-energy
China’s CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat or Falling for Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
by Amy Hawkins - Guardian - 11-10-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds
Fossil Fuel Projects around the World Threaten the Health of 2B People
‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines, and other infrastructure
by Nina Lakhani - Guardian - 11-13-2025
bit.ly/49Zh6Zk
The Ocean Has Been Hoarding Heat. Now It Is Building up a Massive ‘Burp.’
When humans cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
by Matt Simon - Grist - 11-07-2025
https://grist.org/oceans/hey-so-one-day-the-ocean-might-burp-up-a-bunch-of-heat/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly
Beating Cancer Cells at Their Own Game by Stepping on their cGAS
November 12 2025Linked in BlueSky FacebookSwitching on an immune pathway in cancer cells with a new mRNA therapy reprograms the immune system in complex tumor environments to launch a broader attack
by Benjamin Boettner - Wyss Institute - 11-12-2025
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/beating-cancer-cells-at-their-own-game-by-stepping-on-their-cgas/
U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly
The bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the United States. It marked the first time in twelve years the USCCB invoked this particularly urgent way of speaking as a body of bishops.
US Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Public Affairs - 11-12-2025
https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore
How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution
Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants. [Free gift article]
by Carl Zimmer - Illustrations by Álvaro Bernis - NYTimes - 11-10-2025
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/10/science/biology-evolution-technology.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E8._cqc.y-CS_DHqcMfD&smid=url-share
Under Trump, Inflation Is Costing Average US Family $700 More Per Month
“While President Trump claimed that he would bring down prices the reality is that Americans have seen their costs soar even higher since he took office.”
Report, Joint Economic Committee of the Senate
bit.ly/448OetW
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MELANIE CHALLENGER is the current Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Vice President, RSPCA, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Co-Founder, Animals in the Room, which generates new models for representing the interests of non-human life in public policy. She does field research, writes poetry and librettos, and hosts the podcast The Psychosphere on intelligence and agency in nature. Her books include: ON EXTINCTION; ANIMAL DIGNITY; and HOW TO BE ANIMAL.
By Our Own Design: The Science of Agency and the Meaning of Life
by Melanie Challenger - templeton.org - 06-27-2023
https://www.templeton.org/news/by-our-own-design
Unlearning Human Exceptionalism
by Melanie Challenger - GTI Forum - Solidarity with Animals – 02-2023
https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/solidarity-animals-challenger
The Myth of Human Exceptionalism
Technologists will not find solutions to our animal condition.
by Melanie Challenger – IAI news – 05-26-2021
https://iai.tv/articles/the-animal-that-i-am-auid-1812?_auid=2020
The Joy of Being Animal
Human exceptionalism is dead: for the sake of our own happiness and the planet we should embrace our true animal nature
by Melanie Challenger – AEON – 04-06-2021
https://aeon.co/essays/to-be-fully-human-we-must-also-be-fully-embodied-animal
Are Humans Animals?
Do humans have animal bodies – and animal minds?
by Melanie Challenger – ScienceFocus.com – 02-24-2021
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/are-humans-animals
How to Be Animal - Excerpt - The Indelible Stamp
by Melanie Challenger {Scroll down, click on Read Sample]
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606910/how-to-be-animal-by-melanie-challenger/
‘Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis’
Christine Webb, The Arrogant Ape’: Saving the planet requires getting over ourselves
by Kermit Pattison - Harvard Gazette - 10-08-2025
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/human-exceptionalism-is-at-the-root-of-the-ecological-crisis/
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