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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even animals that survive the catastrophe can face long-term consequences. Food availability falls in the aftermath of fires as forests struggle to recover, and the risk of conflict between animals can rise if they are displaced and forced to live closer to each other.

theguardian.com

‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population

The global climate phenomenon has triggered devastating infernos in the ape’s Indonesian heartlands, with long-term effects on the animals still unknown

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The ocean is transforming before our eyes,” said Pierre Bahurel, director general of Mercator Ocean International, which published the report. “Warming, rising seas and ecosystem degradation are interconnected signs of significant and long-term change.”

theguardian.com

World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A proposed underwater AI data centre off the coast of Maine is facing a legal challenge from conservationists, who warn it could harm endangered whales. “The project needs to be stopped in its tracks.”

oceanographicmagazine.com

Legal bid to stop AI data centre in endangered whale habitat

After federal approval of a feasibility permit, campaigners have filed a legal challenge to stop the project

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Species that have sustained some coastal communities in Spain and southern England for generations are disappearing, as unfamiliar arrivals surge into newly hospitable waters. "What is surprising is the speed at which this occurs.”

reuters.com

How Europe’s intensifying marine heatwaves threaten its fisheries

As drought spread and wildfires raged across Europe this summer, the extraordinary heat didn't stop at the shoreline.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It's important to remember that erosion on the coastline has been going on for thousands of years. It's a natural process. The problem is really that we build stuff in the way and on the beaches and in these hazardous areas, and ⁠that's caused the problem."

reuters.com

Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California. Is worse to come?

In Malibu, the Pacific Ocean opened a sinkhole near the home of movie star Nicolas Cage and wreaked havoc on beachfront property. Along Beach Road in the city of Dana Point, waves destroyed one home ...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scientists are examining several different theories, including the environmental factor of warmer coastal waters, to other effects of El Niño, or whether the turtles “could have been blown off course by the recent hurricane”.

theguardian.com

In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches

What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the ‘million dollar question’

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“.. following similar moratoriums passed recently in Denver, Jefferson County and Larimer County.” @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2026/09/23/d...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The El Niño is also a “postcard from our future”, the researchers said, pushing up temperatures to the level the climate crisis is projected to deliver in 20 years’ time.

theguardian.com

Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"In huge stretches, hundreds of miles of stretches along this river, it's already running dry," Texas Monthly reporter Jack Herrera told Texas Standard. "And this is a huge problem because over 15 million people depend on the Rio Grande for their drinking water."

yahoo.com

Texas drought worsens in Rio Grande Valley: 'This is a huge problem'

"This is not a problem that's a decade off. This is happening right now."

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We know that those eggs are getting cooked.”

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Greenhouse gases won't simply disappear. This important point is often ignored or missed - “Even when we get to net zero, we have still emitted an enormous amount of carbon into the atmosphere and its effects will continue for centuries. We can’t easily undo all that damage.”

theguardian.com

Poorer nations will be among the last to benefit if global emissions cut to net zero

Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved

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Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beef may be going the way of the internal-combustion engine. Drought, high fuel and feed prices are threatening U.S. beef--an industry that is vulnerable to climate change and a major emitter. Insightful article by @billmckibben.bsky.social @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

newyorker.com

The True Cost of Beef

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats beef every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is part of a group called tiger cats found across much of South America.

reuters.com

New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described i...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The number of private jet flights has surged in recent years, with climate-heating emissions linked to that mode of travel rising by 50%, according to the most comprehensive global analysis to date. “The rest of us should not have to pay for the luxury excess of the private jet billionaire class”

theguardian.com

Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says

Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Droughts across the US and Europe have been shriveling harvests, and weather forecasts for a “super” El Niño this year means “there are some alarming signals” about the impact of weather on wheat crops, said Joao Lampreia, a market strategist at the Lisbon-based Freedom24.

theguardian.com

US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos

Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“We are depleting that savings account. Global terrestrial water storage has shown a declining trend since 2014–16 – a persistent, decade-long signal.” Last year, for the fourth year in a row, each of the world’s 19 major glacial regions lost ice mass.

theguardian.com

2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds

Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hundreds of Bornean orangutans, one of three orangutan species, live in the direct vicinity of the research stations. As solitary animals, orangutans require large ranges and live at low population densities. “You can’t just shove them all together in what remains of the forest.”

theguardian.com

Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo

Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Rangkong research station work round the clock to stave off blaze

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A surge in wildfires across Sumatra is putting critically endangered Sumatran elephants at greater risk of extinction, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of their habitat now affected by fires. ”The wildfires have squeezed the movement of these elephants.”

asianews.network

Indonesia’s Sumatran elephants run out of room as wildfires spread

A new report by environmental group Geopix found that about 382,778 hectares of elephant habitat were affected by fires throughout August. Further fires affected 147,550 ha between Sept. 1 and 8 acros...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Once these plastics fragment into the ground, they’re practically impossible to remove, acting as vectors for agrochemicals and altering critical soil ecosystems”

theguardian.com

Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Across roughly half of the world’s land, the extreme heat season has grown longer since the 1980s, a new analysis of 45 years of global climate data finds. And it grew unevenly, pushing into fall in some regions and into spring in others.

earth.com

Half the world is seeing extreme heat extend beyond summer

Extreme heat seasons are stretching into spring and fall across much of the world, and warming alone does not explain the pattern.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The electronic trash AI generates in the next 25 years could fill enough shipping containers to encircle the globe six times. The report by Basel Action Network found there is no plan to deal with that waste – which typically contains toxics like lead, mercury, cadmium and forever chemicals.

theguardian.com

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Headlines about looming water shortages with the Colorado River are commonplace. At the Texas Monthly, Jack Herrera calls attention to lesser-known trouble on the Rio Grande, which he describes as "worse—significantly worse—than most realize."

newser.com

Rio Grande's Trouble Is Worse Than Most Realize

Texas Monthly looks at how taps may run dry next year in cities that rely on US-Mexico river

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Critics warn that the carbon market, meant to fund environmental projects and cut emissions, often worsens inequalities. Problems include unfair contracts that remove community control, land grabs, displacement, limited access to traditional lands, conflicts with food production...

theguardian.com

‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

Leaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From October, an average of 29.5 vessels will be allowed to transit daily – down 18% from 36 in August, according to a draft plan submitted to Panama’s parliament. In September, officials cut daily transits from 36 to 32 because of the drought.

theguardian.com

Panama canal traffic to be cut again as drought from El Niño worsens

Latest daily reductions will further choke one of the world’s most important shipping lanes

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brazil doesn’t have a specific national environmental regulation for data centers, and citizens are being caught by surprise through announcements, while they are discovering the consequences this type of enterprise can cause. Often, without time to discuss properly before licenses are issued.

news.mongabay.com

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

As water wells turn to dust, local leaders learn of the massive facility firsthand from reporters.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But a drought now in its 27th year — capped by a poor 2025-26 snowpack that produced little runoff — has drained the account, and both reservoirs are nearing dangerously low levels. Today, nearly every drop is diverted for use and the Colorado no longer reaches the sea.

reuters.com

How drought and demand pushed the Colorado River toward crisis

On August 21, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation cut the allotment of river water to Arizona, California and Nevada.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Each time we find a new species, it opens up new doors … Deep water is hard to access, especially rocky places we can’t reach with bottom-trawl surveys. There are now more than 232 identified species of sponges in Alaska, and probably hundreds more that we don’t know about yet."

theguardian.com

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“This hidden multiplier is missing from the models guiding climate policy, so those models are likely underestimating how much warming is coming — and overestimating how much carbon we can still afford to emit”

e360.yale.edu

The Breakdown of Natural Systems Could Intensify Warming by 30 Percent

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Corals are declining globally and climate change is now the main driver of this change" Four global bleaching events have each been associated a near 10 percent decline in coral.

nationalgeographic.com

See How Much Corals Have Declined in Just 40 Years

As the oceans warm, coral reefs face an uncertain future. Scientists are piecing together the current state of their global decline.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'The species most at risk are the iconic Galápagos penguins, blue-footed boobies, petrels, flightless cormorants, albatrosses and even sea lions. Coral colonies could also be seriously affected, as could tuna fishing.'

nbcnews.com

A stronger-than-normal El Niño alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife

This season’s El Niño phenomenon is due to be stronger than normal and affect the unique flora and fauna of the Galápagos Islands.

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John Rosevear @jrosevear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many of you know this, but diesel prices are an underappreciated indicator. Higher prices for diesel mean higher prices for *everything* that moves by truck -- like, for instance, food.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The paper also reminds us why every fraction of a degree matters. The more we warm the planet, the more we risk activating natural processes that add still more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. This makes rapid reductions in fossil fuel emissions even more urgent.”

theguardian.com

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This doesn't bode well - 'Panama’s restrictions come even as use of the canal has risen: shippers are seeking an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz...' The canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific handles around 40% of U.S. container traffic.

japantimes.co.jp

Panama Canal considering more cuts in transits due to El Nino

The weather phenomenon has caused rainwater levels in two reservoirs used to operate the canal’s locks to drop.

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” and accept shared responsibility for a disaster that led to the death or disappearance of more than 6,000 people.

theguardian.com

Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster

Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The situation is alarming, with unprecedented impacts on some species," warned Jean-David Abel, head of the biodiversity network at France Nature Environnement (FNE). While the losses could be significant, the exact extent remains impossible to measure since many dead animals will never be found.

lemonde.fr

France's wildlife suffers severe blow from intense heat: 'The entire food chain is disrupted'

The growing number of extreme weather events is forcing wild animals to deploy all their adaptive abilities, which are not always enough to survive. This summer, many people decided on their own to he...

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“AI datacenters are very, very good at greenwashing and trying to paint a picture that sounds like everything is going to be nothing but unicorns and rainbows, when in fact what we’re finding out is just the opposite.” #datacenters

theguardian.com

US datacenters face further backlash over wastewater pollution

From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The WMO publishes its air quality and climate bulletin annually, to coincide with the UN’s international day for clean air. Among its key findings was that extreme wildfires are increasing, leading to serious health consequences because of the toxicity of the smoke they are emitting.

theguardian.com

Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds

WMO report details extreme weather events causing climatic feedback loop with serious health consequences

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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region's cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land.'

reuters.com

Tech explores Argentina's Patagonia for mega data centers

Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region's cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and ...

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