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Sky News can reveal that deforestation in the most precious parts of the Amazon rainforest has reached record levels.

Using satellite imagery, Sky's Data and Forensics team have been able to identify changes to the forest canopy - and who is to blame.

On Sky News ClimateCast, hosts Anna Jones and Katerina Vittozzi speak to Sky News investigations journalist Kieran Devine about the exclusive investigation.

Plus tropical rainforest ecologist Erika Berenguer mourns the dangerous amounts of the Amazon that have already been destroyed and explains why we need to do more to stop deforestation if we want to solve the climate emergency.

Hosts: Anna Jones and Katerina Vittozzi
Podcast Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Data and Forensics team: Kieran Devine, Victoria Elms, Carmen Aguilar García

Within weeks of the fall of Kabul, US forces and its allies left the country and the Taliban announced a caretaker government - but could old habits hamper progress? How do they gain international acceptance? And will displaced Afghans ever return?

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan we are joined by Islamic scholar John Butt, Hassina Syed – a businesswoman who recently fled the country – and Professor Antonio Giustozzi, an expert on the region.

Daily podcast team:
Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast researcher - Rosetta Fourlagawo
Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson
Archive - Simon Windsor
Archive - Rob Fellowes
Archive - Nelly Stefanova
Music - Steven Wheeler

The Great British weather was a little hit and miss this summer, it’s getting darker earlier into the evening - but it’s not all doom and gloom.

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we revisit an episode we brought to you earlier this year looking at the importance of good mental health featuring American Kristen Tcherneshoff who moved to the 'happiest country in the world', former Finland prime minister Alexander Stubb and Sir Anthony Seldon, who first introduced well-being lessons for UK schoolchildren in 2006.

Daily podcast team:
Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast researcher - Rosetta Fourlagawo
Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson
Archive - Simon Windsor
Archive - Rob Fellowes
Archive - Nelly Stefanova
Music - Steven Wheeler

In 2021, Sky News is marking some of the century’s biggest news events through the personal stories of lives defined by unforgettable moments from the last 21-years.
Tim Peake: Britain’s first spacewalk is episode 15 of the 21-part series StoryCast ’21

The UK has a long history of exploration, however by 2016, only one astronaut, Helen Sharman, had travelled to space bearing the colours of the UK flag and no Briton had ever experienced the most demanding and perilous experience of spaceflight. That was until one January morning in 2016. Former RAF test pilot, husband and father, Tim Peake, had arrived at The International Space Station (ISS) just weeks before.
When mission control discovered damage to an external power unit, Peake, and fellow astronaut Tim Kopra, were tasked with its repair - a complex undertaking, fraught with danger, which could only be executed during night orbit at 17,000 km per hour.

Tim Peake: Britain’s first spacewalk was recorded by Tom Gillespie
Writing, production and sound design by Rob Mulhern
Special thanks to Tim Peake and Thomas Moore
Digital by Tom Gillespie
Presented by Jayne Secker
TV treatment, Johnny El-Giathi
Head of Radio, Sky News Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: storycast@sky.uk
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
#StoryCast21

The number of migrants reaching the Kent coast has registered record levels this year, but it's just a small fraction of the number of irregular arrivals, the Sky News data team has found.

But what is life like in the refugee camps? How do asylum seekers gain access to the boats that they travel in across the channel? And what are the legal implications of Home Secretary Priti Patel’s proposed "turnaround tactics"?

In this episode, host Gillian Joseph is joined by Kieran Devine from the Sky News Data and Forensics Unit, correspondent Ashna Hurynag, and Mary Stretch from charity Calais Light.

Daily podcast team:
Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast producer - Nicola Eyers
Podcast researcher - Rosetta Fourlagawo
Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson
Archive - Simon Windsor
Archive - Rob Fellowes
Archive - Nelly Stefanova
Music - Steven Wheeler

Black and Asian people represent about 10% of the UK population, according to NHS Blood and Transplant – but they make up more than a quarter of those waiting for a transplant.

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we hear from Karen Bahia – whose 2-year-old son needs a kidney – and Azeem Ahmad, who is a living donor. Plus, Kiran Bhangal from our radio team and Altaf Kazi from NHS Blood and Transplant discuss the reasons and possible solutions to the issue.

Daily podcast team:
Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast researcher - Rosetta Fourlagawo
Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson
Archive - Simon Windsor
Archive - Rob Fellowes
Archive - Nelly Stefanova
Music - Steven Wheeler