2026-10-08
A new count by Seychelles Islands Foundation and the University of Exeter puts the free-roaming tortoises of Aldabra at roughly 180,000, the largest figure on record. In the 1800s hunting had left fewer than a thousand.
It shows a species pushed to the edge can come back when a place stays protected for decades.
Berliners use a free app called Gieß den Kiez that colors each of the city's 900,000 street trees by how thirsty it is, so volunteers know where a watering can helps most. On the city's hottest day this year, residents poured about 8,000 liters over trees.
City crews cannot reach every tree in a heatwave, and a shared map turns ordinary care into real help.
On October 8 the FDA approved atezolizumab alongside standard chemotherapy after surgery for stage III colon cancer with a specific tumor trait called mismatch repair deficiency. In a trial of 711 adults, the risk of the cancer returning or of death was about half that of chemotherapy alone.
It gives doctors a proven new option right after surgery, when the goal is keeping the cancer from coming back.
Applies only to tumors with mismatch repair deficiency.
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