ICYMI: City Bears, Puerto Rico Goes Dark, Are Noses Vegan? & Counting Ants
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A poor berry crop leads Montana bears to venture into human spaces, including downtown Missoula.
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia transported enough nitrogen to the Arctic Ocean to fuel an algal bloom there.
The US Senate ratifies the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol by a bipartisan, filibuster-proof majority. The agreement, to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) worldwide, could avert as much as 0.5°C of future global warming.
Five years to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Hurricane Fiona knocks out power to the entire island.
Thirty-three million people in Pakistan have been displaced by intense flooding.
Denmark becomes the first industrialized country to pay developing countries for the “loss and damage” caused by climate change.
Property insurance in Florida now costs three times the national average.
Massachusetts utility National Grid says that electricity prices this winter will more than double—increasing by an average of $114 per month per household—because of skyrocketing prices for methane gas, the fuel most used for electricity generation in New England.
Hotter temperatures lead to an increase in workplace harassment and discrimination and also to hate speech.
The COO of plant-based meat company Beyond Meat is arrested after allegedly biting the nose of another driver in a road-rage incident.
The Trump-appointed president of the World Bank is a climate denier.
Seventy-five years after being hunted to local extinction, cheetahs return to India.
A Russian missile falls within 300 meters of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.
Scientists calculate that there are 20 quadrillion ants.