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🐧🌙 In 's Westman Islands, entire families stay up all night during "puffling season" to rescue baby confused by town lights.

This century-old saves up to 7,000 pufflings each . Light disrupts the natural navigation that guides these young to sea, so the community collects lost birds in cardboard boxes and releases them from clifftops.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/puffling-patrol-wild-hope-vestmannaeyjar-iceland?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=puffling_patrol

A rescued baby puffin being held in human hands, showing its distinctive black and white plumage and orange webbed feet.

Climate Change Threatens Sulaimani’s Water Sources and Tourism

In the past year alone, the water levels have dropped by 18 meters, with the shoreline receding by 200 to 300 meters. Dukan District Governor Sirwan Sarhad confirmed that only 1.4 billion cubic meters of water remain

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/858565/climate-change-threatens-sulaimanis-water-sources-and-tourism

Millions of people are dying earlier than they should because of poverty, unsafe living conditions and climate change, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Climate change impacts could push more than 130 million people into extreme poverty in the next five years, said the WHO

https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/28959/news/health/climate-change-linked-to-low-life-expectancy-says-who

Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels

Environmental fiction is booming – but can it move beyond dystopia to a brighter vision of the future?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/blue-sky-thinking-why-we-need-positive-climate-novels

Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis

Can fiction make us more optimistic about tackling Earth’s environmental emergency? These eco-focused books have hope at their core
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis

"Payer la terre. À la rencontre des premières nations des Territoires du Nord-Ouest canadien"

est allé à la rencontre des , un peuple autochtone, il raconte l’histoire de ce peuple et ses traditions. La découverte de et d’ incite le à officialiser son autorité sur eux, comme sur leurs . Aujourd’hui, la ajoute la à la initiale.

Couverture du livre de Joe Sacco "Payer la terre. À la rencontre des premières nations des Territoires du Nord-Ouest canadien"

“There is in salty sea foam freshly sprayed by crashing waves, in dreamy Japanese mountaintop clouds and in the breath of dolphins. When scientists test Antarctic snow or the ice on Mount Everest, are there. When, in 2019, an explorer reached the ocean’s greatest depths in the otherworldly Mariana Trench, he found that plastics had beaten him there, miles past the reach of natural light."


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/contamination-exposome.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.63lm.IH8pSFMzPbdN

Mediterranean climate's future: Study suggests swing between droughts and downpours

From its olive groves to its coastal cities, the Mediterranean depends on a delicate balance of rain and sun, but climate change is tipping the scales

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-mediterranean-climate-future-droughts-downpours.html

Climate refugees from Bangladesh face a political storm in India

Undocumented Bangladeshi climate migrants in India lack legal protections and face rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and crackdowns, all amplified by the ruling BJP government and Hindu nationalists

https://www.himalmag.com/politics/india-bangladesh-bjp-climate-migration