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Deforestation, wildlife trade, and dense urbanisation increase contact between humans and animal reservoirs, enabling novel pathogens to emerge. Planetary-health surveillance systems and adaptable vaccine platforms will be essential.

Deforestation, wildlife trade, and dense urbanisation increase contact between humans and animal reservoirs, enabling novel pathogens to emerge. Planetary-health surveillance systems and adaptable vaccine platforms will be essential.

Microplastics likely reach Antarctic waters and ice via ocean currents and human activity, but data are sparse. Standardised sampling campaigns and analytical pipelines are required.

When the people appointing or removing judges are the same people those judges might need to rule against, fair trials involving powerful officials become far less likely. This weakens the separation of powers meant to keep governments in check.

Some slow-growing cancers are unlikely to ever threaten a patient's life, yet current diagnostics often can't tell them apart from dangerous ones. This leads to both overtreatment and, at times, dangerous undertreatment.

As artificial systems become more sophisticated, the possibility that some could genuinely suffer raises serious unresolved questions about the ethics of their creation and use. This concern will likely intensify as the technology matures.

Predictive tools can estimate future risk with some accuracy, but punishing based on probability rather than actual action raises deep unresolved ethical concerns. This tension is becoming more pressing as predictive technology improves.

If AI systems ever become capable of something like suffering, we would have created that suffering deliberately, and we don't have a moral framework ready for that possibility. This question is likely to become urgent faster than expected.

Develop ethical forecasting methods that identify areas likely to experience forced mobility from climate stress without stigmatizing populations or enabling exclusion.