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The combination connected a global climate pattern to immediate species-level damage.
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El Niño formed across the equatorial Pacific, raising near-term risks across weather and essential systems. An extreme rainfall event then showed the biological cost of such pressures by killing about 7% of the Tapanuli orangutan population.
A first participant received a cellular reprogramming therapy designed to reverse age-related changes while preserving cell identity. The trial shifts this approach from laboratory promise to direct testing of safety in humans.
Kew completed digitization of about seven million plant and fungal specimens, turning labels and images into a searchable research resource. The collection now supports large-scale biodiversity analysis, including AI-assisted work on traits, locations, and taxonomic change.
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