Central America

An image of Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) is circulating in science news coverage. The species, native to Central and South America, is known for its slow movement and nocturnal, tree-dwelling lifestyle. The item appears in a biology-focused news listing, drawing attention to the animal among readers following wildlife and zoology stories.

A new report from Oregon Public Broadcasting examines whether the desire to hunt and eat mammoths helped push early humans across Beringia and into the Americas. The idea suggests that following herds of mammoths, a rich source of food, could have motivated some of the first migrations into North America. Scientists continue to debate how central big-game hunting was to these early journeys.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has published an introduction to 'The Derisking Race', an examination of how China and the United States are reducing economic dependence on each other. The piece frames this mutual derisking as driving a broader fragmentation of the global economy into competing blocs, reshaping trade, investment and supply chains worldwide.