After a hot summer, Germany’s Schneeferner Glacier is now too small to move and is thus stripped of glacial status. Switzerland’s glaciers have lost 6 percent of their mass, 0.71 cubic miles of ice.

Renowned ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson is killed when an avalanche sweeps her off Mount Manaslu in Nepal.

Hurricane Ian slams Florida as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the state. People are trapped in their homes by the enormous storm surge, and 2.7 million are without power. President Biden says that it could turn out to be “the deadliest hurricane in Florida history.”

West Virginia senator Joe Manchin withdraws his controversial bill to speed the permitting of fossil fuel and electrical transmission line projects.

Two Nordstream pipelines bringing gas from Russia to Germany rupture in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm, releasing huge amounts of methane, apparently as a result of deliberate sabotage.

Princeton University divests from fossil fuel.

Three chimpanzees, two of them babies, are abducted from a rehabilitation center in the Democratic Republic of Congo and held for ransom.

Ebola breaks out in Uganda.

A newly recognized species of sloth has a head shaped like a coconut.

A bipedal robot developed by Oregon State University sets a Guinness World Record by running 100 meters in 24.73 seconds (video).

California will no longer require new developments near public transit to include parking places.

Wolves, brown bears, and other wild mammals make a major comeback in Europe.

DNA tests confirm that a canid killed in a coyote hunt in upstate New York was not a coyote but a wolf.

A Montana hunter shoots and skins a young Siberian husky, believing it to be “another predator wolf pup.”

A NASA spacecraft rams a small asteroid named Dimorphos 6.8 million miles away to see whether asteroids threatening Earth could be bumped off their course.