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You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . This newly identified species of glass frog (provisional name Nymphargus dajomesae ) was found in the Cordillera del Cóndor mountain range in the Andes. Credit: Photo archive PUCE-BIOWEB Species recovery, cancer-preventing vaccines and progress in developing renewable-energy sources are just some of the positive developments that have happened this year so far . Among them is artemether-lumefantrine, the first first-ever malaria treatment for babies and infants. Nature | 6 min read At the annual United Nations climate conference (COP30) last year, Colombia stepped up to host a new conference, alongside the Netherlands, to create a roadmap for countries to transition away from fossil fuels that doesn’t require consensus between all of the world’s countries, as the COP process does. At the conference, which just finished in Santa Marta, one of the first orders of business was to launch a panel of scientists that will advise willing countries to shift to clean energy. A separate group of researchers released a report listing 12 high-level actions that nations can take to support a fossil-fuel phaseout. “We’re not trying to replicate the [UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] here. …