The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
Seán Cahill
@sean-cahill.bsky.social
Wildlife biologist. Nature protection, Conservation, Outdoors, occasional camper. Previously @CelticTorc 🐦
Educación suspende las clases presenciales en Fuerteventura y 9 municipios de Gran Canaria por temperaturas de casi 40°C y calima. En el resto de Canarias se aplicarán protocolos preventivos y salidas anticipadas opcionales. www.eldia.es/canarias/202...
Educación suspende las clases presenciales en parte de Canarias por las altas temperaturas
La actividad lectiva pasará a ser telemática en buena parte de la provincia oriental, la mitad del Archipiélago más afectada por el intenso calor y la calima
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Place names in Irish show the deep connections our ancestors had with wildlife, from wolves and eagles to wild boar and oak forests. The names are still there but the animals are long gone www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names
Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.
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When two leaders that couldn’t have more oppositional political views meet… the facial expressions say it all… #speirgorm #presidents #Ireland
🌡 Vuelve el calor. No se alcanzarán temperaturas tan altas como las de comienzos de septiembre, pero a partir del domingo serán en muchas zonas entre 5 y 10 °C superiores a las normales para estas fechas. Las condiciones veraniegas comenzaron en primavera y continúan en otoño.
2 semanas después del comienzo del incendio forestal en las dunas de la Devesa de l'Albufera de València, se aprecian los primeros rebrotes en palmitos (Chamaerops humilis) y la flora de las malladas (Plantago crassifolia, y especies de los géneros Juncus, Scirpoides y Schoenus). #IFValència
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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'CRU analysis shows just 17 planned new data centres would have the gas demand of six large gas-fired electricity generators or 2.6 million homes.'
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last wk.Data centres in Ireland to get cut-price gas in exchange for possible disruption of supply
La Ley 7/2023, de bienestar animal, es un esperpento que se hizo de espaldas a toda la comunidad científica. Una vergüenza para toda la izquierda parlamentaria Las manifestaciones de hoy exponen a las claras el esperpento Vean el vídeo de ABC Abajo, algunos carteles www.abc.es/bienestar/mu...
Multitudinaria protesta en Madrid en defensa de las colonias felinas
Madrid, 6 sep (EFE).- Personas gestoras de colonias felinas, protectoras de animales y sociedad civi...
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Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 2w ago#LosGatosTienenLey La tienen. Y es un desastre de ley, que hay que cambiar por el bien de la fauna, la salud pública y los propios gatos Los gatos, en casa Gran error de @ahorapodemos.bsky.social y @psoe-cef.bsky.social, asumido por @movimientosumar.es Este absurdo anticiencia no es de izquierdas
Spain registered its joint-highest temperature for September on record with 45.7C measured in a southwestern town as exceptional heat hits the country, weather agency AEMET said
Spain equals September heat record at 45.7C
Spain registered its joint-highest temperature for September on record with 45.7C measured in a southwestern town as exceptional heat hits the country, weather agency AEMET said.
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The journalist, author and environmental campaigner, Frank McDonald, has died after a brief illness. He was 76
Journalist, author Frank McDonald dies aged 76
The journalist, author and environmental campaigner, Frank McDonald, has died after a brief illness. He was 76.
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Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, feeding on the hind leg of a terrapin, Mauremys leprosa, which can do little about It It was recorded in La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz (S Spain), but I don't know the author The impacts of the blue crab invasion have already been huge, but will increase
Global temperature rises to exceed 1.5 Celsius 'within a few years', UNEP says reut.rs/4iH1BK2
Global temperature rises to exceed 1.5 Celsius 'within a few years', UNEP says
Global temperature rises are set to exceed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) "within a few years", the UN's environmental body said on Wednesday, creating more extreme weather and intensifying pressure on ecosystems, glaciers and low-lying coastal cities.
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Fascinating work described by my colleagues Prof Nicholas Williams & A/Prof Amy Hahs "Maps were produced by Dr Emily Fitzgerald & Dr Noel Faux using data from the Public Record Office Victoria & the Victorian Department of Energy Environment & Climate Action digitised by Dr Patricia Torquato"
We’ve reconstructed Melbourne’s 200-year-old forests
Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. The new Map of the Month from University of Melbourne researchers is rebuilding it for the first ti...
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2/ Deltares, the Dutch government's water research institute, calculated in 2019 that a 2018-scale event would hit roughly once every 60 years, rising to once every 10–20 years by 2050. It has now happened in 2018, 2022 and 2026. www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/vakartikelen...
Els Bombers treballen en un incendi al nord de Collserola a prop del barri de Canyelles. Hi ha enviat un helicòpter, dos avions i efectius del GRAF. #incendi #Collserola #estiu #foc #bombers
Some photos of the #Gironda fire (42 000 ha) in #Bordeaux I've just received from a friend. A large part of the area were homogeneous Pinus pinaster plantations. In the 21st-century climate, forest plantations need rethinking On the legacy of pine plantations doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire
juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 2mo agoForest plantations sustainable under the 20th‑century climate may become unsustainable in the 21st-century climate One of Europe's largest pine plantations (Pinus pinaster) is burning in West Bordeaux ( #Gironda, #Biscarrosse) 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
En las aldeas de la España Vacilada, provincia del Hurdistán, se queman el mismo día las casas y los buitres negros. Hemos pasado de alimentar la siderurgia con el carbón de brezo a nutrir el carbon farming con las repoblaciones que harán los fondos de inversión. Todo en montes de utilidad pública.
Simulating drying and human impacts on river networks to evaluate biological quality indices performance through the lens of metacommunity theory🐟️ 🌊 Find out more 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Riddle Me This: How might cougars—just cougaring around as they do—prevent human deaths? -->When cougars are active in a landscape, expected deer-vehicle collisions fall by 76%, a study shows. My latest for @mongabay.com on how cougars are likely saving humans: news.mongabay.com/2026/08/coug...
Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the U.S. by up to 76%, study shows
If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar woo...
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Some context for how exceptional this Mediterranean summer is: 45 summers, all measured against the same baseline (1982-2010). Not one below average since 1997 — 28 in a row. And the three warmest of the record are the three most recent. #ClimateChange #Mediterranean #SST
Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions ft.trib.al/tiZmPiV
Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions
FT analysis finds 60 largest planned facilities could emit equivalent of 27 coal plants or 24mn cars per year
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Rendements en chute libre, évaporation record… malgré les promesses, voici le vrai bilan des méga-bassines de l’été 2026 : bonpote.com/mega-bassine...
Rendements en chute libre, évaporation record… Le bilan des méga-bassines de l’été 2026
Évaporation, réserves vides, rendements en chute libre : Découvrez le bilan chiffré des méga-bassines lors de l'été 2026.
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Ojo, que en muchos casos es un tema de normativa obsoleta. En CLM tampoco salen explícitamente los centros de datos en ninguno de los listados de proyectos a evaluar. En el caso de Vianos, hemos tenido que argumentarlo por la central tèrmica asociada. Pero bien podría haber pasado de rositas.
GISMAU@gismau.bsky.social · last mo.Aragón libra de la evaluación de impacto ambiental a uno de los mayores centros de datos de España. El Gobierno regional argumenta que Blackstone tiene un proyecto sostenible ambientalmente que no necesita un examen exhaustivo. www.infolibre.es/medioambient...
We're back to my perennial post about how hard it is to keep stuff out of intakes - but this year the jellies are hitting at the same time as freshwater nukes are also offline due to drought. Climate change doesn't just heighten failure risks - it compounds them. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Jellyfish Swarms Knock Out 3.2 Gigawatts of French Nuclear Power
A “massive influx” of jellyfish has forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant and reduce output at a fourth, curbing power supply at a time when extreme...
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Josh Lappen@jlappen1.bsky.social · last yr.Speaking as someone who has manually cleared marine intake screens, this is actually a major engineering problem and not at all easy to solve! But classify this on the less-weird end of the spectrum of super weird ways climate change is going to make infrastructure more brittle
"...preparation cut loose from prevention narrows political imagination, lets what was once thought intolerable settle into bureaucratic routine..."
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last mo.1/ 🚨New piece out co-authored with Ben Shread-Hewitt on the EU's adaptation framework and the risk of a 3°C world. Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. Here's a 🧵on some key points. Thanks @climate-risk.bsky.social for publishing this article.
🇬🇧 New animation: daily river flow evolution across the Iberian Peninsula (2025-26 hydrological year). Now covering Portugal (SNIRH/APA) alongside Spain, app available in ES/PT/EN. Data: EFAS Historical (Copernicus CEMS). #Hidrología #Portugal #España #ClimateScience
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience
Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components
AbstractBackground and Aims. Fire is a key ecological driver shaping reproductive strategies in fire-prone ecosystems. One distinctive strategy is fire-sti
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Lecciones desde 10 territorios mediterráneos con enfoque proactivo basados en el paisaje para convivir con los incendios: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Capitalizing on integrated landscape approaches for wildfire risk mitigation in the Mediterranean region
Wildfires in the Northern Mediterranean are increasing in frequency and intensity, driven by climate change, land abandonment, and fuel accumulation. …
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