After a warm winter with minimal chill hours, 90 percent of Georgia’s peach crop fails.

Millions of dead fish wash up on Texas beaches, killed by low oxygen levels associated with unusually warm water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.

For 11 days in early June, global surface air temperatures are 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels, the degree of warming that the Paris climate accord sought to avoid.

The Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, NRDC Action Fund, and NextGen PAC endorse the re-election of President Joe Biden. 

In the first five months of 2023, US wind and solar are responsible for more electricity than coal is.

The landmark climate trial in which 16 young people are suing the state of Montana over its continuing support for fossil fuels finally gets underway.

Despite its pledge to go net zero by 2050, Shell announces plans to increase its fossil fuel production. 

Toyota shareholders vote down a climate change resolution put forward by a major Danish investment fund. 

By 2028, Denmark plans to replace the gas heating in the 50 percent of homes that still use it with heat pumps or district heating.

In Copenhagen, activists with the climate group Tyre Extinguishers deflate the tires of hundreds of SUVs overnight.

The Vatican fines two Italian climate activists from Extinction Rebellion $30,000 for gluing their hands to the base of the Laocoon sculpture.

Climate change is increasing air turbulence for fliers.

In the Faroe Islands, two separate pilot whale hunts (grindadráp) kill 266 and 180 whales, respectively.

As many as 30 non-native orcas visit California’s Monterey Bay and put on an acrobatic show. No one knows why. 

A large black bear visits northeast Washington, DC.

Following a campaign by bear advocates, Missoula, Montana, vastly expands the area in the Missoula Valley where bear-resistant trash containers will be required. Half of reports of problem bears in the area involve poorly secured garbage. 

At the start of hurricane season, Farmers Insurance Group announces that it will stop writing new policies in the state of Florida. 

The National Park Service says that the site in Springfield, Illinois, where a white mob killed at least six Black residents in 1908 could qualify as a new national monument. 

California’s wildfires are five times bigger than they used to be, and the increase is attributable to climate change. Nearly half a million acres burned in the state last year, an amount equaled in one day by the fires in Canada. 

James Watt, the extreme anti-environmental interior secretary under Ronald Reagan, dies at 85. 

Climate activist Greta Thunberg holds her final “school strike for the climate” and then graduates from high school.