The article "Evolution to the rescue" by Mark C. Urban and Laurinne J. Balstad published in Science (vol. 391, no. 6790, pp. 1100-1101, 12 March 2026) discusses how rapid evolution helps populations recover from extreme drought. Climate change causes populations to decline due to extreme events such as drought. Rapid evolution enables demographic recovery of populations. Theory and experiment show that the survival of a population depends on the rapid finding and fixation of beneficial mutations. Specialized mutations perform evolutionary rescue by narrowing a species' niche and transforming it. This transformation is not easily reversible if the pace of environmental change slows down. Manipulating the rate of environmental change can prevent the success of specialized mutations.[3]