An endangered eastern black rhinoceros born in a Czech zoo is named Kyiv.

Coal power is having a revival in Europe as countries seek a quick alternative to dependence on Russian gas.

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee falsely accuse three major environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, of taking money from Russia to undermine US fossil fuel production. The supposed conduit was the Bermuda-based Sea Change Foundation, which is entirely family-funded and receives no outside contributions.

Two hundred Ukrainian technicians and support staff at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are being held captive by Russian troops and forced to keep watch over the plant’s radioactive waste at gunpoint.

“Extraordinary and very intense” dust storms from the Sahara turn Spanish skies red-orange and spread across the rest of Europe.

Microplastics from European rivers are found to accumulate in the Arctic Ocean, Nordic Sea, and Baffin Bay.

Congress authorizes $1 billion for international climate finance, far short of the $2.5 billion requested by President Joe Biden, The amount is only $387 million above that in the last year of Trump’s presidency. 

The number of big-game trophies imported into the United States increased during the Trump administration.

Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s climate-hawk nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, withdraws her name from consideration in the face of opposition from the fossil fuel industry and West Virginia senator Joe Manchin. 

The water level in Lake Powell declines to 3,525 feet, only 155 feet above the “dead pool” level when it can no longer provide water to the Lower Colorado River Basin. This is the lowest level since Lake Powell was filled behind Glen Canyon Dam. 

An Ogden, Utah, man places caltrop spikes in his neighbors’ driveways because he felt “people were using too much water when we were all in a drought.” Eighteen people had their tires flattened.  

Starting in 2025, Korea will ban farms that harvest the bile of captive bears. As of last year, there were 24 such farms in the country, with 360 bears.

The Abbot Hut, a famous stone mountaineering refuge in Alberta, Canada's Rocky Mountains, is dismantled by Parks Canada. Built by hand by Swiss guides in 1922 and operated by the Alpine Club of Canada, the hut had become structurally unsafe because of extreme erosion caused by climate change.