A cargo ship loaded with 4,000 luxury cars—including 1,100 Porsches and 189 Bentleys—is on fire in the mid-Atlantic. 

The US Postal Service rejects electrification and seals a deal for a new generation of postal trucks, the vast majority of which will run on internal combustion engines.  

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of oil spikes to above $100 a barrel. Sunlight and wind remain free.  

Russian forces seize control of the site of the decommissioned nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. 

Germany suspends the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.  

US oil companies lobby the Biden administration to limit the sanctions it imposes against Russia. 

Canada pulls the plug on further public funding for expanding the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which carries oil from the tar sands fields of Alberta to British Columbia, after COVID and extreme weather boost its cost by 70 percent.

Widespread masking during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may have caused B/Yamagata, one of the four major lines of influenza virus, to go extinct. 

Three white supremacists plead guilty to plotting to attack the US electricity grid in an attempt to destabilize the country and start a race war. 

A court victory by Norway’s Indigenous Sami people may force the removal of 151 giant wind turbines from their traditional reindeer pastures. 

Hackers are infiltrating wind- and solar-energy firms.  

Chinese scientists say they are now able to grow rice in seawater. 

Hank the Tank, a 500-pound black bear with a taste for human food has broken into at least 28 houses in the Lake Tahoe area in the past seven months.

In Andújar, Spain, at 2:22:22 P.M. on 2/22/22, it was 22°C.

The United Nations Environment Programme forecasts a 50 percent increase in wildfires by 2100.

Despite promises to the contrary, Facebook allows climate denial to flourish. 

Only 9 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled, says the OECD. 

According to the International Energy Agency’s 2022 Global Methane Tracker, emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas from the fossil fuel industry are 70 percent higher than what is reported by national governments.  

Magpies help each other remove tracking devices attached by human researchers.  

The Interior Department unveils proposed replacement names for 660 federal sites that currently use an offensive term for Native American women. 

A kangaroo is seen hopping in a field near Øster Ulslev, Denmark. “Nobody has reported a kangaroo missing,” notes AP.