California governor Gavin Newsom wants to send $400 to every driver in the state to subsidize their gasoline purchases. 

Temperatures in Antarctica are 70°F hotter than normal, shattering the previous heat record by 27°. Parts of the Arctic are 50°F warmer.  

A large tornado causes heavy damage in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is not tornado season.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that the 1,750 households living in government trailers since Hurricanes Laura and Delta destroyed their homes in 2020 should start paying rent. 

Smoke from recent extreme wildfires, such as those in Australia in 2019 and 2020, reached the stratosphere and depleted the earth’s protective ozone layer.  

The northern long-eared bat is at risk of extinction because of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the bat endangered after its population declined from 97 to 100 percent across 79 percent of its range.

A mountain lion runs into an office building in Irvine, California, where it is tranquilized and captured. Another Southern California lion is spotted swimming across Lake Mission Viejo. A third is killed by a car on the Pacific Coast Highway. 

Koch Industries, whose CEO Charles Koch funds climate denialists, is also a major backer of the US battery industry.

The Securities and Exchange Commission says that publicly traded corporations have to disclose their own greenhouse gas emissions and what risk climate change poses to their operations. 

New research shows that oil and gas rigs in New Mexico release six times as much methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, than estimated by the EPA.

Workers constructing Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline puncture three Minnesota aquifers, leading to the loss of 300 million gallons of groundwater. 

Monkeys that live in equitable social groups have higher levels of stress than those living in hierarchies.