Nature briefing

 

Friday 11 September 2020

Hello Nature readers, Today we hear grim news about wildlife decline and Arctic fires, discover that more than 100 open-access journals have disappeared from the Internet and learn about a new method for cooling computer chips from within.

Northern fires (like the one shown here in the Novosibirsk region of south Siberia) released record-setting amounts of carbon dioxide this year. (Kirill Kukhmar/TASS/Getty)