A California court rules that bees can be considered a kind of fish.

Cat owners in Waldorf, Germany, are ordered to keep their cats indoors through August to protect the rare crested lark, which makes its nest on the ground.

Regenerate Alaska, the only oil company to bid when then-president Donald Trump offered leases to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, relinquishes its lease. 

Buick says that its entire line of cars will be all electric by the end of the decade.

For the first time, EPA headquarters in Washington, DC, raises the rainbow flag at the start of Pride Month. 

Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s EPA administrator, repeatedly pressured his security detail to drive at excessive speeds with sirens and emergency lights on when he was running late, including to pick up his dry cleaning. 

US emissions of CO2 rose by 4 percent in the first quarter of 2022 as Americans drove a record 753 billion vehicle miles.

In an attempt to convince drivers to switch to public transit, Germany has offered transit passes to all subways, buses, trams, and regional trains this summer for less than $10 a month.

Only Denmark and the United Kingdom are on track to meet their net-zero climate goals by 2050. The United States’ standing fell precipitously during the Trump years. 

In March 2022, the only additions to the US grid were from wind and solar. 

Because of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the Minnesota Zoo cancels plans to ship eight rare Przewalski’s horses to a Russian nature reserve.

Scientists identify the world’s largest plant: a single organism that covers 70 square miles of seafloor off the coast of Australia in seagrass and that has cloned copies of itself for 4,500 years.

A likely climate-linked heat wave has devastated India’s treasured mango crop. 

Opium farmers in Afghanistan are using solar power to pump water from deep wells to irrigate their fields. 

A young man disguised as an elderly woman smears cake on the glass covering the Mona Lisa to protest climate change.  

Thirty-five percent more Monarch butterflies overwintered in Mexico last winter compared with the year previous. 

The Brazilian Amazon is now a net emitter of carbon and has been so since 2016.

Rejecting a challenge from Republican states, the Supreme Court allows the Biden administration to continue considering the social cost of carbon when making new regulations. 

Wild boar are expanding their range in North America and could soon become a fixture in large cities in Canada. 

Four wolves from the Wedge pack in Washington State are found dead, possibly from poisoning. 

A Utah hunting guide is charged with a felony after baiting a bear with grain, oil, and pastries so that Donald Trump Jr. could kill it.