GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

A 25-Year-Old Paper On the Controversial Glyphosate Weedkiller has been Retracted

U.S. EPA announces $3 billion in new funding for states to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water

Reaching net zero carbon emissions will not bring quick relief from extreme heat

The beautiful ponderosa pine—is disappearing.

New climate idea, to combat sea level rise, moving seawater to reflood inland depressions.

NYTS SAYS Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War.

-Floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island displaces over three million people with 3000 injured or missing

-New Delhi air has “severe and life-threatening levels of toxic pollutants.

-Dust from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat

-Zillow, removes a feature that showed the risks to homes from extreme weather

-Greenpeace exposes the plastics industry as “merchants of myth”

-Seattle biodigester reduces garbage while helping residents grow their own gardens

-The Great Pacific Garbage Patch gets bigger and gives marine life a new place to live 

-Exxon petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid disclosing

how much pollution they produce.

-Iran’s capital must be moved because Tehran is out of water and subsiding

America's most critical urban hubs is sinking into the sea, 

-The global ocean are simultaneously warming, becoming saltier or fresher, losing oxygen, and acidifying

-China’s effort to reduce its re...

-New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100

-Iran is suffering from a severe drought that has depleted water sources, pushing authorities to begin cloud-seeding

-Philippines communities affected by consecutive Typhoons that caused extensive damage and tragic loss of life. 

-The H5N1 virus, or bird flu virus has struck 66 poultry flocks Killing millions of birds

-New petrochemical plants in Texas will largely be built near communities of color

-Netherlands, small biogas domes that b...

-French judges ruled that an oil giants advertising, website statements, and public claims were deceptive greenwashing.

-Brazilian police conduct biggest crackdown on criminal networks operating illegal gold mining across the Amazon Basin.

-US plans to kill nearly half a million Barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect  the Northern spotted owls

-Indian state of Kerala has record landslides, due to Deforestation and unregulated urban expansion

-Panama looks to relocate indigenous families on islands to the mainland due to r...

- Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean as one of the most powerful storms in recorded history 

- Iranian President issues a dire warning,  the Iranian capital could soon face catastrophic 
   water shortages

- Bill Gates pushes back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change.

 - Elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast declared functionally extinct. 

- The EPA is promising to erase a scientific finding that underpins climate regulations nationwide

- Warming waters and heat waves causing greater stress for Californi...

45 largest meat and dairy corporations in the world were responsible for more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions 

Lake Michigan's water temperatures were the highest they'd ever been on that date since modern tracking started.

 Switzerland's glaciers lost 3% of their total volume this year.

The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record

US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin

climate  report says that   humanity is hurtling toward climate chaos

Suriname is taking steps to preserve 90% of all their forests

India said it is planning to reach net zero by 2070

Torrential rains deadly floods and landslides across Mexico

A severe storm microburst confirmed to have hit Tempe Arizona 

Typhoon Halong tore through remote, coastal communities of Alaska

380 homes in northern Vallecito Colorado evacuated  after floodwaters breached the levees 

Lake Corpus Christi Texas in the midst of an Abnormally Dry drought. 

78% of Earth’s land has recorded its hottest month on record in the 21st century 

Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity so far this year

Boston's Long Wharf saw higher than average tides known as King tides.

Spain's olive, citrus, and avocado crops sustain major hail damage

European wild bee species, risk becoming extinct

The Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in 2024

Humanity has pushed seven of nine critical planetary boundaries past their safe limits

France using moss-tile systems to combat air pollution.

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-A dangerous hazmat situation happened  in central Arizona due to flash flooding 

-Tampa faces $117 billion in property risk from flooding

-18 houses, 6 last week, collapsed on the coast of North Carolina in just over five years, due to Beach erosion 

-West Antarctic Ice Sheet is at an increased risk of completely collapsing due to global warming

-Karachi, with a population of 18 million, suffers from acute water shortages.

-The extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink  

-Energy Department adds...

-U.S. rivers are running hot.

-Antarctica has climbed to more than 86  degrees fahrenheit in the past week. 

-Big Tech   follows of Big Oil, as they build data centers in the South

-China is all in on becoming an ​“electrostate”.

-First hybrid offspring between a green jay and a blue jay the grujay.

-Nobel laureate warns the world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming

-Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050

-Sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10

-Court rules anti-climate group not exempt from Federal Advisory Committee Act

-Panama’s seasonal upwelling collapsed in 2025

-A new top tomato, the ‘Scarlet Sunrise” ripens in New Jersey.

-EPA stops requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted

-Spain recently has been battered by torrential rain

-September Drought continues to worsen in several parts of the U S.

-The rapid rise and explosive spread of pelagic sargassum causing environmental concerns

-Millions of brown tree snakes fundamentally altering the balance of Guam’s ecosystem 

-China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans

-85 climate experts denounce U S “Climate Working Group” report on climate change science,

-Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers account for About Half the Intensity of Recent Heat Waves 

-The world’s methane emissions continue to rise steadily 

-Alaskan rivers can be seen from space as the permafrost melts, turning them orange

-Pennsylvania towns are seeking government funding to replace wells contaminated by fracking

-Pakistan’s Punjab flooding displaced  1.8 million people last month

-The world’s 10 largest oil-consuming countries accounted for 61% of the global share

-Utility-scale solar and wind projects account for 90% of all new builds

-Trump Administration’s actions to cripple commercial use of wind energy 

-This summer, the U.S. and the world have been pummeled by floods, fires and heat waves.

-Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods continue to pound Pakistan

-Kuwait adapts extreme heat, with summer temperatures reaching 120°F 

-Temperatures made El Paso the dea...

-Trump  administration will not approve solar or wind power projects

-3.5 million New Yorkers have  water systems that have so-called forever chemicals

-Record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches

-Techniques known as “eco-driving” could cut carbon emissions 

-Shifting climate patterns  exposing banana crops around the world to diseases and other pressures.

- New biodegradable film keeps buildings cool without electricity

- US economists urge the world to push back against Donald Trump’s attack on environmental laws.

-Washington State is experiencing at least moderate drought conditions 

-Heavy rain and flash flooding lashed Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week. 

-U.S. rejected the "Net-Zero Framework" proposal by the International Maritime Organization

-Trump administration officials instructed NASA to terminate and destroy the U S Orbiting Carbon Observatories tools, 

-Europe’s glaciers are shrinking faster, than anywhere else on Earth.

-A woman wins $10,000 by removing 60 invasive pythons from South Florida in just 10 days.

-Mediterranean countries are fighting invasive species by turni...

Trump administration preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants that helps low
income families install solar panels on their homes 

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force the EPA to reinstate its  $3b climate program

Three chemical producers reach a historic 2 Billion dollar settlement with the state of New Jersey

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral in nearly 40 years 

Phoenix Arizona has heat that is one for the history books.  The mercury went up to 118 degrees

Extreme heat episode will...

Tampa Bay area’s most intense heat wave on record hit 119F

Much of the U S sweated under a brutal heatwave last week

Bridgeport Ct.  reached 95 degrees last week, tying a 1949 record  .

Nordic countries are experiencing “truly unprecedented” heat

Greenland ice sheet temperatures approaching the melting point in mid-July. 

Tick infestation closes Bridgeport’s Pleasure beach for the season

Utah's has a state of emergency due to surging wildfires

West Virginia embraces wind driven green energy 

The International Court of Justice r...

The International Court of Justice said that states must protect people from the “urgent and existential threat” of climate changeThe First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway.Trump administration to repeal scientific finding that gives the US government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.Two incurable diseases threaten Missouri’s Soybeans and corn crops.Invasive seaweed from Southeast Asia, describe as a serious threat to Spain's regional biodiversity.Rising salinity in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice fast.New scientific warns largest nor’easter in recorded history may strike the U.S. East Coast. 

-The Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, New Mexico is bone dry. 

-US threatens tariffs and sanctions against Mexico “stealing” water from Texas farmers

-The Mississippi River, North America's largest river system, is under threat

-Kabul Afghanistan the first modern capital city on the verge of running dry.

-Greece faces a growing water scarcity crisis

-The Environmental Protection Agency announces eliminating its scientific division

-The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”,

-Miami's drinking water is threatened by Nuclear power plant leak

-2,300 people died of heat-related causes during European   severe heatwave 

-PFAS now contaminate the bodies of nearly all Europeans

-The Great Green Wall of the Sahara is a modern ecological wonder

-The Golden Plains wind farm in Australia is now its biggest wind farm  

-Pope Leo XIV is  committed to emphasizing the dangers posed to humanity by climate change. 

Deaths from Catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 

Trump “ends taxpayer support for unaffordable and unreliable ‘green’ energy sources”

State of the Climate in Asia report, 2024 was ranked as the hottest  year 

New York City has a new elevated waterfront park just opened 

A growing number of American cities using “cool roofs. 

Major heat waves hit  southern Europe

India also struggling with heat waves

Majority of  Britain’s want the most polluting companies to face tax hikes 

The Caspian Sea level is likely to decline by up to 59 feet 

 Proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands across Western states halted

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work 

Texas has lowest chance of power supply emergencies in years

Solar is now California’s #1 electricity source 

-The risk of encountering ticks outdoors in the New York area is very high.

-The global food system faces growing risks from climate change

-EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants ruled illegal.

-The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. 

-Southern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution 

-Just 4. companies are top four companies contributing the most to plastic pollution. 

-Indiana is stepping up its s...

The DOJ  says the President  has the power to eliminate national monuments to make way for development 

Global EV sales surged in May 2025

Pennsylvania to protect farmland from residential and commercial development

Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a first ever heat advisory 

World Meteorological Organization state of the climate report released, 

Scientists detect a unique kind of toxic organic pollutant in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese scientists have created a new family of recyclable plastics 

-Costa Rica shapes the global agenda on marine protection and ocean governance

-Ocean acidification entered a "danger zone" in 2020

-EPS may repeal rules limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants 

- coastal flooding is happening much more often previously known

-Trump administration has fired all of its content production staff of Climate.gov

-Climate change will “quadruple” the likelihood of conflict over scarce resources

-Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden and install flagpoles 

-Smoke from wildfires in Canada effecting large parts of the U.S.

-Nigerian Flooding finds 500 missing and presumed dead and thousands displaced  

-Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants

-More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders worldwide

-Widespread use of drifting net devices harm ocean life and coastal communities

-Kentucky tornado characterized by widespread damage and loss of life 

-World’s largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, in China, explodes

-Building collisions, responsible for between 100 million and 1 billion birds killed annually 

-Groundwater pumping in Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs.

-County in West Virginia known for having the most public drinking water violations

-In Indiana, putting Up Solar Panels Is doing God’s Work 

-Republicans seek to dismantle many of the benefits of the inflation reduction act. 

-All 1,200 scientists and staff at the U.S. Geological Survey’s biological research arm may lose jobs

-Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals illegally

-Certain detergent additives can be transformed into glyphosate

-Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans.

-Harpy eagles reappear in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle 

-Cleaner, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in U.S.

-China’s clean power generation causes nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall 

-At least 32 people killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia tornadoes

- Intense heat wave that swept through many areas of Texas

-NOAA will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters 

-Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on Earth are in a race against extinction.

-China attains the nation's first zero-carbon island

-Seventeen Hoboken youth receive this year’s Youth Climate Action Fund grant

-Extreme weather is affecting homeowner's insurance market

-Nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution

-Cairo’s skies turned a dusty yellow from powerful khamsin sandstorm

-New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year

- Brazil  to seize private lands where forests have been illeg...

-Alaska, is warming two- to three-times faster than the global average

-Gray whales along the West Coast are dying at alarming rates

-Gutting of USAID cuts off data used to warn people of weather disasters and food shortages

-China has led an environmental campaign of historic proportions 

-14 Good climate news Stories

Pope Francis and St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology and environmental champion.

EPA looks to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases.

EPA hides data that ON locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US.

Broadcast news coverage of climate change fell by 25 % last year 

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation 

Extremely low sea ice...

-U.N.report calls for transformative societal and economic changes to staunch global warming, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss.

-More than 80,000 homes in the tri-state area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years

-Trump administration aims to increase timber production by 25 percent on federal lands

-Interior secretary Doug Burgum says endangered species list, needs “cleaning out”.

-Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation

-Ann Arbor, Mich., has an a...

-110 words and phrases have been banned from use at the U.S. Agricultural Research Service

-Different types of extreme weather have been affecting several regions of the U.S.

-NOAA has halted upkeep of critical Joint Polar Satellite System weather satellites  

-Ecosystems in the water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change

-Indonesia is planning to clear 20 million hectares of forest to make way for agriculture

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-World Meteorological Organization publishes State of the Climate report

-NASA analysis, shows that sea levels rose more than  expected in 2024. 

- 2025 may usher in an era of record-breaking hurricanes

-prediction more intense hurricanes in 2025 due to increase in ocean temperatures.

-U.S. Energy Secretary “global warming is a side effect of building the modern world”

-China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, reported Slower oil demand growth 2024- 
-If the world covered every suitable roof with solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanity’s electricity
- the first...

-EPA head Zeldin says he intends to reconsider many core EPA rules and regulations

-US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular updates 

-50 percent all carbon emissions can be attributed to just 36 high-emitting companies

-Pakistan has the worst winter smog season in  several years

-Less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than any other on record

-Pacific island nation of Nauru selling citizenships to fund its retreat from rising seas

-The US installed largest single year of new so...

A new EPA candidate said last week that the U.S. should “adapt to” rather than try to minimize climate change. 

New Executive order  by President Donald Trump  expands tree felling for timber on 280 million acres of U S forests.

Researchers protecting crucial climate data on government websites from DOGE.

145 USDA who protect U S from  tiny invasive pests at our ports, Terminated.

NOAA employees are speaking out about the chaotic DOGE firings. 

Glaciers worldwide have lost a staggering 6,542 billion tonnes of ice 

California suing fossil fue...

Four critical pillars of the planets ecology are on the brink of collapse.

EPA to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare

GSA plans to shut down all 8,000 of its EV chargers.

Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration over purge of climate-related policies datasets, and resources from its websites

California to protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers

Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million seed samples and welcomes over 14,000...

More than 30% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation capacity comes from renewables

China no longer increasing its fossil fuel consumption due to renewables commitment

Cleaning of the Yamuna river, one of the most polluted rivers in India,begins

World's oceans hit their highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024 affecting weather

US Fish and Wildlife Service, froze its vast portfolio of international conservation grants

The world's farmland is getting drier and saltie

NOAA avoided making any link between January’s record high global temperatures and climate change

Th...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

 Atmospheric river pummeled Southern California 

Californians faces back-to-back earthquakes  

California is sinking in some areas

 Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°Celsius of global warming

 Honolulu officials to proceed with a lawsuit against the Oil industry

Approximately 27,000 farmed salmon escaped from a farm off the Norwegian coast

Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency

Colombia’s cancels a joint venture between state energy company and Occidental Petroleum

South Florida’s wealthiest  communities elevating streets above flood water levels.

The Greenland ice sheet  is cracking more rapidly

The Aral Sea now forms the Aralkum desert.

U.S. real estate market could a trillion dollars in value due to Climate change

Department of Agriculture bold new stance on climate change: out of sight, out of mind.

Trump reversing progress steps to regulate toxic PFAS 

Swiss Farmers suing their government for failing to act on climate change

Researchers propose method making ammonia without emissions.

15-year-old from N C  designs a home that withstands category-four hurricane-force winds

China broke its own records for renewable energy installation in 2024, 

Wind and Solar Generated More US Energy Than Coal in 2024

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization
 
Spain's flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S. leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the natorangeion's crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After Bird...

-The latest on the LA fires,
-Climate change fueled LA fires intensity
-FIREAID an “evening of music and solidarity

California has no blackouts when wind, water and solar electricity exceeded 100% of demand 

Montana Supreme Court upholds a landmark victory for youth climate activists

Portugal  is now home to Europe's largest Marine Protected Area network

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates its own energy.

The UK to stop producing electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance  on coal

California banned the use of most expanded plastic foam food...

In 2024 Earth sent clear signals that its climate is warming and tipping into unknown territory

Climate change is making Earth wobble and spin more slowly

Earth consistently surpassed 1.5 C of warming.

Global carbon emissions reached all-time highs.

 Atlantic Ocean currents known as  the  (AMOC), could collapse 

 Cuts in emissions from shipping have accidentally accelerated global warming

 Oklahoma’s needs to ban the use of chicken poop as fertilizer

The koala bear is at the real risk of extinction

Deforest...

Montana Supreme Court gives youth activists climate victory

Pacific Northwest and Northern California hit by  atmospheric rivers,

E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning

Cutting-edge onshore wave energy technology comes to the United States

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a is on the move

New research shows unprecedented human-caused warming

Ice free Arctic could occur as early as the summer of 2027.

Climate blamed catastrophic rainfall and droughts in Mediterranean area

microplastics might be affecting planet's weather and climate. 

Enacting 4 policies could eliminate 91 percent of world’s plastic waste 

Southeast Louisiana is losing 100 yards of land every 100 minutes

Europe’s native oyster reefs have collapsed

Texas faces rising sea levels and increased flooding due to climate change  

Portugal has Europe's largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance.

Animal populations are dwindling at an alarming rate.

Lower Basin states California, Nevada and Arizona to slash  Colorado River water use  

Extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans.

Pesticides aren't always necessary.

Human activity is behind a decline in soil quality 

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates  energy.

COP29 is now over with modest deal 

COP29 makes international carbon market a reality

Brazilian cattle industry contributing to illegal deforestation of Amazon.

Wildfires  burned across the Northeast, due to unseasonably warm and dry weather. 

Washington State, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in US.

-Delhi’ India’s  air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily

-Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland with flooding, downed trees and power outages nationwide.

-U S Northwest battered by storms

-Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop.

-Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield

-10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea

-Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, works against climate agreement

-Costa del Sol region of Spain gets extreme rain and flooding

-Chinese city sets record for consecutive summer days

-House lawmaker Lee Zeldin of New York to run the EPA

-Exxon Mobil, cautions President-elect not to leave Paris Agreement

-Saudi Arabia's sun-baked deserts get first snow

-African small-scale fisheries declining

-Salmon are once more returning to spawn in Oregon  creeks

-No sign the lobster population of Ct. will recover

-A Sixth home on the North Carolina Outer Banks to falls into the sea 

-This past October was the driest on record in New Jersey & Connecticut 

-10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004 caused by the burning fossil Fuels

-The world headed for a destructive 3 degrees Celsius of warming

- Florida homeowners are selling their flood-damaged properties using words like "as is,

-Multiple bodies of water" in Long Island have seen algae blooms forming
-Tornado warnings in the Midwest, typically unheard of this late in the year
-New turbine in China is set to power 160,000 households annually

- Valencia, Spain faced unprecedented flooding and deaths

-Cyclone pounds Chinese province of Hainan with flooding

-Fed’s give 3 Billion for infrastructure  and reduce diesel air pollution.

-Atlantic cod quickly eat over 10 million capelin fish at one time

-Calif. Republicans want delay in carbon reduction policies
 

-137 organizations that are actively involved in promoting climate disinformation

UN says To end the climate crisis means it is “crunch time for real”

California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic

Once thought extinct in the Atlantic Ocean Gray whale makes comeback

Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale

Clean energy jobs grew more than twice the rate of the overall economy 

Homeowners happy with rooftop solar

-Torrential rain lashed the south of France last week, causing severe flooding

- Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time

-Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60%

-Nature is disappearing repoetedfrom the Living Planet Report 2024

-PestiSCAND device checks for pesticide residues on produce at home

-New  self-regulating water desalination syste runs on solar power

Hurricane Milton destroys up to 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost

“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency

Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble

Pesticides aren't always necessary

United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane 

Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered.

India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs

12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say we must address climate change 

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal
-90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded
-Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems
-24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies: 
-Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change
-Home insurance companies pulling   out of risky states.
-Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

-Hurricane Helene Devastation
-Vienna reduced impact of flooding caused by Storm Boris
-Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border 
-Germany embraces "balkonkraftwerk", or balcony solar
-Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative was launched-
-How much warmer is the Earth going to get?

-Record 2024 Central European floods
-Multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal 
-North Carolina saw historic rainfall
-Vast areas of the Brazil on fire
-Atlantic hurricane season poses increased risks
-California’s closes plastic bag waste loophole
-In Norway electric vehicles surpass gas automobiles
-Gen Z & millennial workers back sustainability priorities

-Typhoon Yagi most powerful typhoon to hit Asia this year.
-Severe drought in Cuba
-Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average
-The lead ammunition poisonous to scavenging animals
-Critical shortfall in pollination affecting world’s food crops,
-EPA gives $4B in funding for clean energy projects
-EV sales have not fallen, cooled, or slowed 
-New solar-charging Truck bed Power System

 -A surge in giant sinkholes in Turkey.
-Alaskan  land would be protected from mining interests
-Missouri to ban most exports of water from the state.
-Drones used to fire "seed missiles" to grow trees
-Replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen and electricity not enough
-U.S. voters support legal action against plastics/fossil fuels   
-McDonald’s is set to reduce plastic waste

-Weedkiller Dacthal serious health risks to unborn babies, banned.
-Record-setting heat wave in the west
-221 thousand pounds  of dead fish in Greek port
-Worst droughts sweeping across southern Africa
-Multimillion-dollar estates sliding into Pacific Ocean
-Legos, changing its plastics formula to be environmentally friendly.

-The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a record speed 

-The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change
-Farmer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects

-Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom

-New solar utility-scale operations are largest source electricity

-Electric car sales growing fastest 

-Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy 

 Catastrophic flooding hits southwestern CT

North Carolina beachfront falls into the Atlantic Ocean

Mediterranean Sea reaches highest recorded temperature

 Phoenix has been over 100 degrees F for 77 straight days

Current and future human health and wellbeing are at serious risk

Greece is facing a severe water shortage problem

IRS is offering rebates up to a 30% on clean energy products

-Debby rains bring New Jersey flooding
-Law suit win on mass spraying insecticides
-Record-breaking heat wave in Antarctica
-Glacial lake outburst floods Juneau Alaska
-Glaciers supplying water disappearing
-Jane Goodall says It’s Not Too Late to Save the World

-Tropical Storm Debby swamped Florida’s sewage systems
-Climate warms Artic permafrost releasing ancient Mercury
-U.S. DoE awards $147 million for world’s storage facility in Maine
-Ebron Solar will invests $942 million in New Mexico’s solar
-U.S. Government to fund $1.45 billion to solar manufacturer
-Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world
-China to accelerate cutting greenhouse gasses by 2035

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-Tropical storm Debby
-Philippines capital flooded from Typhoon
-Dragonflies swarm beachgoers in Rhode Island
-Oil-well blowout in Kazakhstan spews methane
-New rules for methane emissions at landfills
-First US solar-covered canal coming
-Brazil’s proposal for a 2% wealth tax on billionaires

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Phillipines

Dragonflies

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Landfill methane

solar covered canal

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