Two houses on Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina collapse into the ocean on the same day.

Cleaner air in the United States and Europe is linked to an increase in Atlantic hurricanes. 

Rolling Stone reports that former president Donald Trump asked aides whether China had the technology to launch hurricanes at the United States, and whether the US should respond militarily.

Researchers reveal an image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. 

Bad news for lunar farmers: Thale cress planted in soil from the moon grows more slowly and shows more stress than cress planted in terrestrial volcanic ash. 

The first all-Black climbing team summits Mt. Everest.

The Interior Department releases initial findings of its investigation into 408 government-supported Indian boarding schools, including the discovery of burial sites at 53 of them that may contain the remains of “thousands or tens of thousands” of Indigenous children. 

An effort in the Senate to codify a woman’s right to abortion fails due to West Virginia senator Joe Manchin and all 50 Senate Republicans voting against it. 

New US solar installations grind to a halt while the Commerce Department investigates whether Chinese solar-equipment makers are dodging Trump-era tariffs.  

The House Oversight and Reform Committee votes to throw out the study that the US Postal Service relied on to justify replacing 90 percent of its 165,000 delivery trucks with gasoline-powered vehicles.

The House Natural Resources Committee makes its first-ever criminal referral to the Justice Department in a case involving Donald Trump’s interior secretary David Bernhardt, in which an Arizona developer donated $241,000 to Trump and the RNC simultaneously to the Interior Department reevaluating the denial of a Clean Water Act permit the developer wanted.

More than 90 percent of sites surveyed in the Great Barrier Reef this year showed coral bleaching.

Recycling pledges by the major beverage companies will reduce oceanic plastic bottle pollution by only 7 percent. 

Despite calls from Governor Gavin Newsom for conservation measures, urban water use in California increased in March by nearly 19 percent over March 2020.   

Human eyes can be revived hours after death. 

The National Park Service invests $61 million in urban parks and green spaces in 26 cities across the nation.

The 2021 US Atlantic cod catch hits a new low of less than 50,000 pounds, down from 20 million 30 years ago. 

Talen Energy, owner of Montana’s giant, 1,480-megawatt coal-fired Colstrip Power Plant, files for bankruptcy.

California, which currently produces no offshore wind energy, plans on generating 10 to 15 gigawatts by 2045, enough to power 10 to 15 million homes. 

Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the only nuclear power plant presently under construction in the United States, is now expected to cost more than $30 billion. 

According to the World Meteorological Organization, the chances of hitting the Paris climate accord upward allowable limit of 1.5°C within the next five years are now 50-50.