The temperature in the Iranian city of Abadan hits 126°F. 

Much of the United States is in the third week of a record-breaking heat wave. 

Seville, Spain, launches a program for naming and ranking heat waves, in the manner of hurricanes.

Of the 339 people who died of heat-related causes in the Phoenix, Arizona, area in 2021, 130 were unhoused.

“Heat stress” kills thousands of cattle in Kansas feedlots.

The US Forest Service admits that a prescribed burn by the agency sparked the Hermit’s Peak Fire in New Mexico, which grew to be the largest in state history.

Wishing to bring down high gasoline prices, President Joe Biden calls on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax. The Sierra Club is skeptical. Economists don’t think it will work.

Federal agents search the home of environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark, seizing electronic equipment. In the waning days of his administration, former president Donald Trump had sought to make Clark acting attorney general as part of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.  

The Forest Service proposes a 20-year ban on copper-nickel mining on federal land in Minnesota's Rainy River Watershed, adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Canada will ban single-use plastics by the end of 2022.

A consortium of oil companies is backing a 1-gigawatt floating wind farm off the coast of Norway, which would be the world’s largest.  

The production of “bio-gas” or “bio-methane” from landfills, sewage sludge, etc., leaks twice as much methane into the atmosphere as previously thought.  

The Netherlands joins Germany and Austria in reverting to coal power in the wake of a cutoff of gas from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. 

A bacterium large enough to be seen with the naked eye, Thiomargarita magnifica, is discovered "in the sulfurous waters of mangrove forests in the archipelago of Guadeloupe."