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Climate change is threatening all of the ocean's migratory species - Oceanographic

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 4d

“Migratory animals are the planet’s early-warning system and they are in trouble”

A report from the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species warns that all migratory species are being impacted by climate change.

oceanographicmagazine.com

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 4d

"Water could drop too low behind the dam that holds back Lake Powell, allowing it to flow through the hydropower turbines that generate electricity for millions of people across seven states"

Could another poor water year spell disaster for the Colorado River?

It’s no secret the Colorado River is under threat from increased demand and prolonged drought, but what the seven states that rely on the river are going to do about it is still a mystery.

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Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 4d

Tehran has grown to a city of more than 10 million people, and consumes nearly a quarter of Iran’s water supplies.

Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water

Solar-powered farming is digging Pakistan into a water catastrophe

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 4d

"In the long run, this will have an impact on cropping intensities and the types of crops we can grow, which in turn will impact our food security."

Karamat Ali's cows and buffalos once provided his multi-generational family with milk. But earlier this year, the 61-year-old sold about a dozen bovine - and spent the proceeds on a set of solar panels.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 5d

Good for them, may this site get a lot of traction - climate.us.

Former staffers of Climate.gov are attempting to launch a new site: Climate.us

Climate.gov went dark after cuts from the Trump administration. Now, a group of former employees are trying to revive it under a new domain.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 6d

She certainly was a tireless and fierce advocate for a better world.

‘A remarkable ability to inspire’: global tributes pour in for Jane Goodall

Barack Obama, Prince William and Tanzanian president among many to mark death of primatologist at age of 91

Crowded camps, stagnant water and not enough doctors: first the floods, now disease stalks millions in Pakistan

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 6d

The poorest always suffer the most - “We are helpless; we have no adequate place to cook and live, we have lost everything – our crops, our homes and our belongings. Outbreaks of diseases are already increasing, and everyone is suffering.”

As the waters recede, a surge in cases of cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and dengue has compounded the misery of people who have already seen their homes and crops disappear

Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 6d

"Since about 20 years, all glaciers in Switzerland are losing ice, and the rate of this loss is accelerating"

Switzerland’s glaciers have lost 24 percent of their volume over the past decade, researchers said Wednesday, warning that accelerated melting in 2025 brought ice loss close to record levels. Scientis...

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Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died | CNN

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 7d

The world has lost an amazing woman today. What a life. RIP Dr Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

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Border wall slicing through Arizona wildlife corridor begins construction: ‘A show of force for nothing’

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 7d

There's no thought about the consequences to the natural world - “The wildlife there have existed for and evolved over thousands of years in a connected ecosystem and this wall will sever populations in half”

The 30ft-high wall between the US and Mexico will cut through one of the last unbroken grasslands in the west, leaving residents alarmed over the potential impact on wildlife and water use

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 8d

“What men call progress has killed our history” - Soya beans are now cultivated in 25 of Brazil’s 27 states and cover more than half the nation’s arable land, from the pampas to the equator.

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

Kabul's wells run dry, driving children out of class and into water queues

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 8d

"Sometimes they cry and say they cannot fetch more, but what else can we do?"

Eight-year-old Noorullah and his twin, Sanaullah, spend their days hauling yellow jerrycans on a wheelbarrow through Kabul's dusty alleys instead of going to school - an ordeal for one family that reflects Afghanistan's deepening water crisis.

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World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 8d

"...This isn’t a problem we can simply air-condition our way out of. Cities need an immediate funding boost to improve insulation and ventilation of buildings, develop heat plans and create shade cover where possible.” ~Anna Walnycki, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts say

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 9d

Insanity rules.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 9d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 9d

“But as the climate crisis has accelerated, it is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

'Biodiversity loss, extreme weather and water scarcity' is Europe's future, report warns

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 11d

“More than 60 percent of the species in Europe are in a bad or poor condition”

Europe's environment is in a "bad to poor" state, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. While there are some positive developments the general situation remains dire.

euobserver.com

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12d

“Our results apply only to intact, mature forests, which is where we are watching closely. They suggest the Amazon forest is remarkably resilient to climate change. My fear is that may count for little, unless we can stop the deforestation itself.”

Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12d

"Even if the diagnosis is dire, the window of cure is still open. Failure is not inevitable; failure is a choice. A choice that must and can be avoided.”" ~Johan Rockström, The Potsdam Institute.

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade | CNN

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12d

'Nearly three-quarters of drought-prone regions, including those with major reservoirs, face a high risk of severe and persistent droughts by the end of the century if humans keep burning planet-heating fossil fuels, the study found.'

Many parts of world face are predicted to endure periods of unprecedented extreme water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12d

How sad - 'In the historic port city of Basra, beekeepers following centuries-long traditions are struggling to produce honey as the salinity of water in Shatt al-Arab rises, along with extreme heat and persistent droughts that have disturbed the bees' delicate ecosystem.'

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis

Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq's mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the apiaries that dot the riverbank is under threat.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12d

'An NGO study published in early July estimated that 88 percent of Turkey risks desertification.'

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years

Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27 percent compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 13d

The average American born in 2024 will likely face up to $500,000 in additional lifetime costs from climate crisis, and those who experience more severe effects will see up to $1m in costs, the Costs of Climate Change: Financial and Economic Impacts on California report states.

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis – report

University of California, Berkeley, study found that those who experience severe effects will see upto a $1m in costs

Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 15d

Chile has suffered several droughts in the last 15 years, but farmers – who face severe water shortages – and residents also blame Anglo American for buying up the rights to use local water.

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster