ICYMI: Everyone’s Sleeping Badly, Colorado Brings Back Wolverines & You Can Wear Your Uniform to Pride

Environmental news of the week for busy people

Illustration by Peter Arkle

By Paul Rauber

Illustrations by Peter Arkle

May 31, 2024

Global warming makes wild boars—and likely you too—sleep badly.

Thermometers in New Delhi hit 126°F, a record. 

Howler monkeys in Mexico drop dead out of trees due to extreme heat and drought. Mexico City could run out of water in June.

South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan, chair of the House’s Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security, claims that the federal government prohibits people from harvesting rainwater from their roofs. The EPA, in fact, expressly encourages the practice.

Melting permafrost causes Alaska’s rivers and streams to turn orange.

Climate change claims another beach house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Global carbon dioxide emissions may have already peaked

The body governing the International Law of the Sea unanimously rules that member states are obligated to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

All nine of South Dakota’s tribal nations ban South Dakota governor Kristi Noem.

Colorado will be the first state to reintroduce wolverines.

Oakland, California’s school district is the first in the nation to fully electrify its school bus fleet

The US Embassy in London owes the city $18.6 million in unpaid traffic-congestion fees.

Mayor Eric Adams abruptly ends New York City’s 30-year-old municipal composting program.

After the National Park Service declares that agency staff could not wear their uniforms in Pride marches, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland countermands the order