The toll is huge: Climate in Focus
A short Planet B dispatch on climate, forest, environment: the evidence, and why it matters for the work of restoration.
What happened
A development worth noting for anyone who believes the first Earth is the only one we get. The signal is a familiar Planet B truth: that climate is not a distant abstraction but a set of choices being made now.
The core of it: com/world/gallery/2026/sep/06/el-nino-fuelled-wildfires-destroy-precious-indonesian-forests-in-pictures">devouring Indonesia’s forests</a> and peatland, unleashing thick smog, and destroying the habitat of some of the planet’s most vulnerable species.
Why it matters for Planet B
Planet B reads this the way it reads everything: not as spectacle, but as material. Every fact like this is a reminder that restoration is ordinary work, done in ordinary places, by people who decided to look closer instead of away. The lesson travels.
Editorial note: this dispatch was drafted by Planet B's editorial engine (extractive) from public reporting by The Guardian, Environment, then reviewed and approved by a human editor before publication.