• A combination of vaccine and immunotherapy for skin cancer helped reduce risk of cancer spreading to another part of the body ​by 59% after five years of follow-up. Reuters.
• Experimental hepatitis B drug may offer functional cure for some patients. AP.
• Papua New Guinea has reduced its malaria death rate from 13 to one per 100,000 over 25 years. The National.
• 58% of the global population now has access to safe sanitation up from only 31% in 2000. Our World in Data.
• One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs has been discovered off the coast of Argentina—and it’s home to dozens of species new to science. Mongabay.
• Once endangered, the IUCN has formally reclassified the green sea turtle as Least Concern. It skipped two classifications entirely, jumping straight from Endangered to Least Concern without pausing at Vulnerable or Near Threatened. Rolf Skeldon.
• West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. After a family of beavers resettled nearby built a dam, the flooding stopped. NPR.

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