The winner of New Zealand’s 2021 Bird of the Year competition is the pekapeka-tou-roa, a long-tailed bat. 

At the COP26 climate summit, more than 40 nations pledge to phase out burning coal. The United States is not among them, for fear of angering powerful Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). 

After dropping more than 5 percent last year, global carbon emissions have rebounded to pre-COVID levels.

Escalating costs of raw materials plus supply-chain bottlenecks jeopardize 50 gigawatts—more than half—of the world’s utility-scale solar projects planned for 2022. 

Baleen whales are found to eat three times as much as previously thought; in the case of blue whales, as much as 16 tons of krill a day, or from 5 to 30 percent of their body weight.  

Smoke from wildfires drastically alters the migration patterns of birds. 

The Biden administration strikes a trade deal with the European Union on steel and aluminum that would, for the first time, use tariffs and other trade instruments to encourage the production of low-emission manufacturing processes.  

The EPA proposes new rules under the Clean Air Act to sharply restrict emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, including those from existing sources. 

The Supreme Court agrees to hear a number of cases that challenge the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. 

Just 10 publishers on Facebook are responsible for 69 percent of the platform’s climate-denial content. 

The House Oversight Committee subpoenas internal documents from four giant oil companies, the American Petroleum Institute, and the US Chamber of Commerce relating to their roles in misinforming the public about climate change. 

The Government Accountability Office finds that Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back regulations by the EPA and other federal agencies largely failed, since they “did not result in substantive changes to the agencies’ normal regulatory processes and procedures.” 

New York voters approve an amendment to the state’s constitution guaranteeing the right to a clean environment.

The National Weather Service forecasts Alaska’s Chugach Range to receive 28 feet of snow in three days. 

COVID-19 has killed 5 million people worldwide. In the United States, the death toll hits 750,000.