A bizarre disease killing songbirds from the mid-Atlantic to the Midwest may be connected to a toxin in Brood X cicadas. 

In Maine, climate change leads to a plague of toxic caterpillars.

Maine bans offshore wind farms in state waters but encourages them in federal waters. 

In North America, June was the hottest month on record.

The average temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, in June was 95.3°F, a new record.

Lapland also set a record: 92.5°F. 

Climate change made early July’s record-shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest 150 times more likely.

An estimated billion mussels, clams, and other intertidal creatures cooked to death in their shells on British Columbia beaches during the recent heat wave. 

Rupert Murdoch’s climate-denialist Fox Broadcasting is launching a weather channel.  

TC Energy, would-be developer of the Keystone XL Pipeline, sues the US for $15 billion for canceling its project. 

One-third of the California desert tortoises relocated to make room for the 3,000-acre Yellow Pine Solar Project are eaten by badgers within weeks.

Electric vehicles surpass civilian aircraft as California’s leading export.  

A Honduran court finds Roberto David Castillo, head of a hydroelectric company, guilty in the murder of Berta Cáceres, Goldman Prize winner and dam critic, in 2018. 

Three Mexican environmental activists were killed in the past month. 

A gas leak in an underwater pipeline unleashes a fireball in the Gulf of Mexico that takes five hours to extinguish. 

A huge column of flame erupts from the Caspian Sea when an underwater “mud volcano” erupts in an Azerbaijani oil and gas field. 

California budgets $61 million for bridges and tunnels to allow wildlife to safely cross freeways.  

Worldwide, 4 million people have died of COVID-19.

In California, the pace of wildfires and acreage burned so far this year far exceeds the disastrous year of 2020.

State fishery officials warn that “nearly all” of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River could die in the current drought. Governor Gavin Newsom calls on Californians to voluntarily reduce their water use by 15 percent.

A grizzly bear kills a bikepacker in the western Montana town of Ovando.