Silent Victims of the Heat: How Climate Extremes Are Devastating France’s Flora and Fauna

Tired Earth

22 Jul 2026

As record-breaking heatwaves and summer droughts intensify across Europe, France’s ecosystems are facing an unprecedented crisis. From dying forests and wildfires in the south to distressed wildlife struggling to find water and shade, global warming is taking a heavy toll on the country’s natural world.

Why Are Bees Struggling to Survive This Summer?

Tired Earth

22 Jul 2026

Bumblebees are social, living in colonies that are maintained by very active workers with a relatively short lifespan of 4-6 weeks. This means, that in a relatively short space of time, older bees die off and to prevent disease making it’s way through the colony, the healthy young workers bring out their dead, moving them far away from their colony.

Iran's rare wildlife pays the price of war as missiles rain down on protected habitats

Tired Earth

22 Jul 2026

The U.S.-Israeli military strikes have inflicted a devastating toll on Iran's already fragile ecosystems, from endangered cheetahs in the mountains to sea turtles in the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel moves forward with plans to surround prisons with crocodile-filled moats

Tired Earth

19 Jul 2026

The Israeli government has stripped legal protection from Nile crocodiles to allow their deployment around prisons holding Palestinian detainees. Rights groups denounce "sadistic brutality."