Climate change compounds risks across water, weather, and ecosystems

Climate change emerged as the week's broadest risk, linking water depletion, extreme El Niño projections, disease zones, forest recovery, and tests of climate mitigation. The same period also advanced computing and genetic engineering by bringing storage, light, gene regulation, and viral design into sharper focus.

Meanwhile, new observations and experiments made the early universe harder to explain, while biomedical work exposed both longer-lived research models and serious safety limits.