Toxic PFAS—“forever chemicals”—are found in nine out of the nine samples of “eco” home fertilizer made out of sewage sludge that were tested.

Climate-activist investment firm Engine No. 1 wins at least two seats on ExxonMobil’s board of directors at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. 

Sixty-one percent of Chevron’s shareholders tell the company that it must cut emissions from the customers who buy its fossil fuels. 

In a case brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, a Dutch court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030.

The Biden administration backs a Trump-era project to pump 100,000 barrels of oil a day from Alaska’s North Slope.  

Biden and California governor Gavin Newsom open the door to floating wind turbines off the California coast.

A pipeline breach has spilled an undetermined amount of oil on the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana. 

An Australian court rules that the country’s environment minister is obliged to consider the harm climate change will cause to children in deciding whether to approve a new coal mine. 

As the Arctic Council meets in Reykjavik, Iceland, an Arctic heat wave pushes temperatures to 86.5°F, up to 43° hotter than normal for this time of year.

Greenland’s melting ice cap is releasing huge amounts of toxic mercury into the Atlantic. 

Ninety-six percent of the western US is in drought, half of that either “extreme” or “exceptional.” 

A mountain lion breaks a window to enter a home in San Bruno, California, just south of San Francisco, possibly attracted by “several large game, taxidermy trophy heads” mounted on the walls.

Population growth slows rapidly worldwide and may soon enter a sustained decline.

Reintroducing wolves to an area reduces deer-vehicle collisions by 24 percent, yielding an economic benefit to society 63 times greater than the cost of wolf predation on cattle. 

The 12th dead whale of 2021 washes ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area. Four are either confirmed or suspected of being killed by ship strike. 

Twenty-one participants in an ultramarathon in the Chinese province of Gansu die in a sudden cold snap with hail, freezing rain, and strong winds. 

High levels of nitrogen and phosphorous in the Sea of Marmara are fueling phytoplankton whose mucilaginous discharges—colloquially known as “sea snot”—are clogging Turkish waterways, killing fish, and repelling tourists. 

Pope Francis is getting an electric popemobile with carpets made from plastic bottles rescued from the ocean. 

Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy—who led the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon—files to run for governor of Idaho in 2022.

Bitcoin mining is keeping fossil-fuel-powered plants online that would otherwise be replaced by renewables. 

Gigantic old-growth trees are still being logged in British Columbia. 

US Park Police officers in San Francisco will now wear body cameras, to be followed later this year in New York City and Washington, DC. 

Australia is suffering from a “mouse plague,” defined as 800 to 1,000 mice per hectare (about 2.5 acres).  

Tasmanian devils are born in the wild in Australia for the first time in 3,000 years.