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- 1Mapping Climate Refuges to Save Panama's Harlequin Toads●Mapping Climate Refuges to Give Panama’s Harlequin Toads a Second Chance
Conservationists are mapping climate refuges in Panama to help harlequin toads survive as warming temperatures and disease squeeze their remaining habitats. By identifying cooler, wetter areas where the amphibians can persist, researchers hope to guide protection efforts and give the critically endangered toads, once abundant across Central America, a realistic chance at recovery.
- 2Why banana sweets no longer taste of bananas●Why don’t banana sweets taste of bananas? Because the banana changed and the sweet didn’t. One crop, one clone, one fung
Banana-flavoured sweets are modelled on the Gros Michel variety, which was wiped out commercially in the mid-20th century by Panama disease. The Cavendish banana that replaced it tastes different, so the sweets never caught up. The story is being shared in a newsletter that also touches on market concentration, noting a handful of companies dominate popular investment trackers.