From the earth's poles to the tropics, from the oceans to the planet's most fertile farming regions, global warming could present daunting challenges.

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Call it a Fisher's Island of the tropics, with a Louis Vuitton store on Main Street.

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The reason for this is the paucity of data over the tropics, where many of world's dense (and highly inaccessible) rainforests are situated.

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"It's also fine in humidities above 98%, which you find in the rainy season in the tropics, " she says, where the conditions outside resemble the environment the virus finds in the body.

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