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Corals in the Galapagos hold a thousand years of ocean chemistry showing El Nino has grown far stronger over the last four decades, a trend that tracks rising global temperature and stumps the climate models built to predict it.
A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak swept through two Indigenous populations in Bolivia’s lowlands. Most adults were infected and many became ill, yet deaths were extraordinarily rare. A new study suggests the explanation may lie in a combination of youthful population structure, low metabolic disease and unusually regulated immune responses, not a single protective trait.