Flamingos appear on the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, possibly pushed north by Hurricane Idalia. Windswept vireos, warblers, and other North American species show up in Britain, courtesy of Hurricane Lee.

A flock of California condors find their way to Contra Costa County, just east of San Francisco.

Facial recognition technology is being used to identify, with 97 percent accuracy, individual greylag geese within a flock of 6,000. 

President Biden makes restoring healthy salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin a key federal priority.

An endangered Florida panther is struck and killed by a vehicle—the eighth so far this year. 

The Salish Sea’s endangered Southern Resident orcas eat only salmon, but they are harassing and killing—but not eating—porpoises. No one knows why. 

Donald Trump (falsely) claims that offshore wind turbines off South Carolina are driving whales crazy.

Fewer mule deer and coyotes are being killed on California highways because there are fewer mule deer and coyotes for cars to hit. 

New York’s city council votes to electrify the city’s entire municipal fleet of 30,000 cars, trucks, and buses by 2035.

Ford halts work on a $3.5 billion battery plant for electric vehicles in Michigan because of concerns about the Chinese technology involved.

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak delays key climate initiatives, pushing back the phase-out dates of petrol-powered vehicles and gas boilers.

The Biden administration awards $1.4 billion to 35 states to improve rail safety and to increase capacity on passenger trains. 

Weeks after a giraffe with no spots was born at a Tennessee zoo, another spotless giraffe is sighted in the wild in Namibia. 

Early humans are found to have built wooden structures nearly half a million years ago in what is now Zambia.

Wildfire smoke increases rates of suicide. Also dementia.

President Biden launches the American Climate Corps to train over 20,000 young people for clean energy and conservation jobs. (Learn how to join here.) 

Claiming that Biden wants to take away long, hot showers, House Republicans seek to roll back efficiency standards for home hot-water heaters. Another proposed bill would tax electric vehicles and EV batteries. 

Researchers who claimed to have the first evidence of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean Sea retract their claim after it is pointed out that their alleged photographic proof bore a strong resemblance to a plastic toy.