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Switzerland 22nd of 28 European nations in development of solar and wind energy: 11% as against 28.3% average, 75% in Denmark (LINK in French) 12 June 2025

Scientists have discovered a hidden pattern and 'universal rule' governing all life on Earth: seven key areas where "biodiversity organization is deeply tied to environmental gradients, particularly temperature, precipitation, and habitat continuity": published 4 June (LINK) 11 June 2025

— "In every bioregion, there is always a core area where most species live," lead author Dr. Rubén Bernardo-Madrid of Umeå University explained in a release. "From that core, species expand into surrounding areas, but only a subset manages to persist. It seems these cores provide optimal conditions for species survival and diversification, acting as a source from which biodiversity radiates outward." Researchers analyzed the global distribution of amphibians, birds, mammals, reptiles, dragonflies, trees, and rays, drawing from extensive ecological databases and mapping more than 48,000 geographic grid cells. The scientists identified seven distinct types of areas — or "biogeographical sectors" — that recur across the globe. Biodiversity hotspots (core areas) tend to have stable, resource-rich conditions that support a wide variety of endemic species. In contrast, species found in transitional zones are typically generalists or migrants, able to survive in more variable or marginal conditions but less unique to any region.

"Life from oceans to savannas explained with one single rule" — (LINK)

COVID vaccines and the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome: less than the risk of GBS from a COVID infection itself, and the mRNA vaccine decreases that risk (LINK) 8 June 2025

39% of the world's glaciers are already doomed over next century, and if the world continues its current climate policies the number will rise to 76 percent (LINK) 7 June 2025

— Glaciers in the US and Canada are the most affected, as 75 percent are already predicted to melt. The Hindu Kush and Karakoram ranges, meanwhile, have more stable futures. Vice: The study separated itself from others as it looked ahead past 2100, the previous stopping point of past research.

— The study's findings may read as devastating at first glance, but that's the opposite of what the researchers intended. Lilian Schuster, who co-led the study, told CNN that she and her peers wanted *to give a message of hope" through their work. "With the study, we want to show that with every tenth of a degree less of global warming, we can preserve glacier ice," she said, with fellow co-lead Harry Zekollari adding, "We're not activists, this is science talking."

Scientists at United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health propose 'minerals trust' to power green energy, protect communities (LINK) 7 June 2025

Scientists make breakthrough toward full cure for HIV (LINK) 6 June 2025

— As The Guardian reports, scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne found a way to make the HIV virus visible, potentially laying the groundwork for ways to banish it from the body altogether. Author and Doherty Institute research fellow Paula Cevaal told the Guardian that it was "previously thought impossible" to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) into HIV-containing white blood cells. But thanks to a new type of LNPs (bubbles of formulated fat called lipid nanoparticles), dubbed LNP X, the team found a way for these cells to accept the mRNA.

Breakthrough discovery offers new hope for treatment of memory loss due to Alzheimer's (LINK) 7 June 2025

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access (LINK) 3 June 2025

— It comes just a week after health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unilaterally revoked and altered some of the CDC's recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting access to children and pregnant people. The resignation also comes three weeks before CDC's experts and advisors are scheduled to meet to publicly evaluate data and discuss the recommendations for this season, a long-established process that was disrupted by Kennedy's announcement.

Nearly 40% of the world's glaciers are already doomed, scientists say (LINK) — ground.news: 72 media reports (LINK) 3 June 2025

— If current climate policies remain unchanged, global temperatures are expected to rise by 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100, resulting in the loss of approximately 76 percent of today's glacier volume and causing sea levels to increase by a minimum of 113 millimetres.

'Half the tree of life': ecologists' horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects (LINK) 3 June 2025