The sub-heading to an interview with the primatologist Jane Goodall suggested that she believed population growth was “not the cause of climate change”; in fact, as the article made clear, Goodall said human population was not the main problem but was one of three main problems alongside our “greedy lifestyles” and poverty (“Q&A: Jane Goodall”, 3 January, New Review, page 24).
In a piece about the spread of Covid-19, we gave Professor Martin Hibberd, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the incorrect first name of Michael (“Analysis: symptomless cases in schools”, 3 January, page 8).
An opinion piece on the north-south divide should have referred to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), rather than the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) (“With a deal done, can No 10 turn ‘levelling up’ into more than a nebulous phrase?”, 27 December, page 39).
Other recently amended articles include:
Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers
‘It makes me want to cry’: voices of hospital staff on the Covid frontline
Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future
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