In the midst of a heat wave that sends temperatures over 100°F, a Greek zoo feeds its animals meals encased in ice.

Flames driven by Hurricane Dora devastate Lahaina on Maui, Hawai’i, with much of the historic town burned to the ground. At least 55 people die, and a dozen more need to be rescued after they jump into the ocean to escape the flames.

A Hawai’i judge rules that a lawsuit against the major oil companies for misleading the public with their climate disinformation can go forward in state court.

Florida’s board of education approves climate-denialist videos from the right-wing Prager University Foundation to be shown in grade schools. The videos portray climate change as a natural cycle, depict wind and solar power as environmentally hazardous, extoll the virtues of plastics, and liken climate activists to Nazis. New Hampshire is considering adopting the Prager course as well.

Maine reaches its goal of installing 100,000 heat pumps two years early. It now aims for 175,000 more by 2027.

Washington and Oregon see a huge increase in the number of wildfires set by humans, with more than twice as many in 2023 as in the same period in 2022.

Severe thunderstorms in the first half of 2023 cause $34 billion in damages worldwide, the highest amount of insured losses in any six-month period ever. In the US, the hardest-hit state is Texas.

After Beyoncé’s concert in Washington, DC, is delayed due to bad weather, the singer covers the $100,000 cost of extending Metro service so attendees can get home.

Southern Iran records a heat index of 158°F, surpassing the 152° mark recorded in July.

After an ice dam at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier bursts, the Mendenhall River floods and carries away two riverside homes in Juneau.

President Biden designates nearly a million acres next to the Grand Canyon in Arizona as Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, the country’s newest.

A new study finds that 65 percent of bird deaths in the vicinity of electrical power lines are caused not by electrocution but by gunfire. 

General Motors will make all of its electric vehicles bi-directional, so they are able to act as emergency sources of power or feed electricity back into the grid when needed. 

One in four cars sold in the second quarter in California is an electric vehicle. 

Hank the Tank, a 500-pound black bear believed to be responsible for breaking into at least 21 homes in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe, California, is apprehended and sent to a wildlife sanctuary in Colorado. 

In Slovakia, a herd of swans that took shelter in a poppy field when neighboring areas flooded becomes addicted to opiates.