A beluga whale named Hvaldimir, thought to have once been a part of a Russian intelligence operation, shows up in the waters around Oslo, Norway, before moving on to Sweden. 

The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2019 authorization to kill up to 72 female grizzly bears that come into conflict with cattle grazing in grizzly habitat outside Yellowstone National Park.

A very rare white bison is born in Wyoming’s Bear River State Park, a one in 10 million occurrence. White bison are revered by the Lakota and other Plains tribes. 

Project Bison, the much-heralded Wyoming project that promised to remove 5 million metric tons of carbon from the air by 2030, will not come online this year as anticipated, having neither a site for its plant or a means to power it.

Associates of Sultan Al Jaber, president of the COP28 world climate talks, are accused of attempting to remove references from Wikipedia relating to his role as CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

State Farm stops selling new home insurance policies in California, blaming risk from wildfires and other natural disasters. 

Two-thirds of US auto dealerships do not have a single all-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle for sale.

Three cubs born to a cheetah that had been brought from South Africa to India in order to replenish its cheetah population die in a heat wave in Kuno National Park.

You know who isn’t fazed by the extremes of heat and cold that climate chaos will bring? Ticks. 

When plastics are recycled, toxic chemicals can enter the new products and interact to create harmful new substances.

Excess emissions from Shell’s new plastics plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, cost the company $10 million.

The Chinese province of Guangdong intends to install as much offshore wind capacity as the rest of the world combined. 

California’s epic snowfall revives Yosemite’s glaciers. 

In Europe, plentiful springtime meltwater, sun, and wind result in negative prices for renewable energy.