Arizona uses 2,800 stacked shipping containers to build 10 miles of new border wall.

The tally of human remains found in rapidly receding Lake Mead is up to six.

In 2021, industrial emissions of greenhouse gases in the US rose by 4 percent.

Ford says that its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in under four seconds.

The Biden administration awards nearly $1 billion toward the purchase of 2,400 zero-emission school buses in 389 school districts across the country.

Gas appliances in California release as much carcinogenic benzene every year as do nearly 60,000 cars.

More than half of US bird species are in decline.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service declares emperor penguins to be a threatened species.

Following a spate of climate activists gluing themselves to roads and throwing food at famous paintings, a Dutch talk show asks a climate activist from Extinction Rebellion what is “the proper way to protest.” The activist promptly glues himself to a table.

Local governments in Ohio’s Allen and Auglaize Counties kill a proposed 300-megawatt solar farm.

The US Forest Service “burn boss” in charge of a controlled burn in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest that jumped a road and burned 20 acres of a neighboring ranch is arrested by a local sheriff.

Seven Russians carrying or illegally flying drones have been arrested in Norway, where unidentified drones are buzzing offshore oil and gas platforms there.

Russia alleges that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a highly radioactive “dirty bomb.” Ukraine says that Russian engineers are conducting secret construction work at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in order to detonate its 174 containers of spent nuclear fuel. President Biden warns Russia against the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

In Indonesia, a rubber tapper is killed and swallowed by a seven-meter python.

In Florida, a teen wins $1,000 in prize money for catching 28 invasive Burmese pythons in a 10-day period.

The United Kingdom’s first wild bison in thousands of years is born in Kent.

Only 5 percent of plastics in the US are recycled.

White Americans are now more likely to die of COVID than Black Americans.

The EPA opens a civil rights investigation into whether Mississippi “discriminated against the majority Black population of the City of Jackson on the basis of race in the funding of water infrastructure and treatment programs and activities.”

Bumblebees play with “toys” (little wooden balls) for no apparent reason other than enjoyment.