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As she lay in an Indonesian hospital, attached to a drip and suffering from dengue haemorrhagic fever, Nadja Ensink-Teich experienced an extraordinary act of human kindness. “Two ladies suddenly appeared at the foot of my bed,” she remembers. “They said, ‘We’re going to take care of Fleur.’” That happened in January, when Ensink-Teich and her …

A series of glaciers in the Antarctic are being named after the satellites that have revealed the changing state of the White Continent. The spacecraft, from Europe, the US and Japan, have all contributed important observational data which confirms a picture of accelerating ice loss. They include the pioneering American Landsat series of satellites and …