BBC News – Science & Environment

• Chinese spacecraft sets off on Moon sample quest
  The robotic Chang'e-5 mission aims to return the first lunar rocks to Earth in more than 40 years.
• Biden cabinet: John Kerry named climate envoy as inner circle get key posts
  Joe Biden is nominating one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement as his climate envoy.
• Charles Darwin: Notebooks worth millions lost for 20 years
  Cambridge University Library launches an appeal to find the scientist's missing notes and sketches.
• Call for coronavirus screening at mink farms
  Surveillance of farmed mink for coronavirus should be mandatory, says a top scientist.
• Climate change: Covid pandemic has little impact on rise in CO2
  Despite the global lockdowns, overall greenhouse gas concentrations have continued to rise.