Earth’s population is now 8 billion.

The worldwide rate of decline in men’s sperm counts is accelerating.

The US and China agree to restart climate talks.

Brazil, Indonesia, and Congo sign a pact to protect their rainforests.

A top Cambodia wildlife official on his way to a conference about protecting endangered species is arrested in New York and charged with trafficking thousands of endangered long-tailed macaques.

Chimpanzees show each other objects just because they’re interesting.

Going into a winter without gas from Russia, 26 of France’s 52 nuclear reactors are offline. Germany’s parliament okays delaying the closure of its three remaining plants.

Russian soldiers retreating from the Ukrainian city of Kherson steal a raccoon from the city zoo.

The black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a chicken-size bird that has not been documented since it was first described in 1882, is rediscovered in Papua New Guinea.

A hiker on Mt. Mansfield in Vermont rediscovers the purple crowberry, a shrub last documented in 1908.

Whales ingest 10 million pieces of microplastic every day.

In the past decade, 90 percent of US counties have suffered a weather disaster.

California plans to be carbon-neutral by 2045.

The Tennessee Valley Authority proposes building a large solar farm on top of the coal-ash pit of its Shawnee coal-fired power plant in Paducah.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approves plans to remove four dams that block salmon migration on the Klamath River, the largest such project in US history.

In future planning, the Bureau of Land Management will prioritize habitat connectivity, including restoring migration routes and wildlife stopovers.

Ten thousand domestic mink are on the loose after someone breaks into an Ohio farm and releases them from their cages.