Smoke from the massive wildfires in the West blankets the East Coast. 

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric says that its equipment may have sparked the enormous Dixie Fire in the Sierra Nevada. In response, the utility says it plans to underground 10,000 miles of electrical lines in the state.

Washington governor Jay Inslee declares a drought emergency. 

Torrential rains cause catastrophic floods in Germany and Belgium. In China, 21 rivers flood, and the military blasts a dam to release floodwaters that threatened the densely populated Henan Province.  

The G20 industrialized nations have spent more than $3 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies since the Paris climate accord was signed in 2015.

The International Energy Agency says that, based on current low levels of spending on clean energy, global carbon dioxide emissions will hit record levels in 2023 and continue climbing from there.  

Greenland suspends all oil exploration because it “takes the climate crisis seriously.” 

A shortage of blue crabs is driving up prices for crab cakes. 

Six months into his presidency, Joe Biden has overturned 39 of Donald Trump’s environmental and energy policies.  

The Department of Energy will return to previous water-efficiency standards for showerheads that Donald Trump had weakened after complaining that they made it hard to maintain his “beautiful hair.” 

After a pandemic pause, the annual British tradition of counting the queen’s swans on the Thames—known as “swan upping”—resumes. The swan census dates to the 12th century.  

Wild pigs are responsible for carbon emissions equal to more than a million cars. Every year, invasive boars uproot an area the size of Taiwan.  

Sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney, Australia, learned how to open residential garbage bins and are now passing the knowledge on to cockatoos elsewhere. 

A solar developer whose house on Martha’s Vineyard has an ocean view is suing to block the 62-turbine offshore Vineyard Wind project. 

Half the jobs required to build the Vineyard Wind project off Martha’s Vineyard will be union. 

A start-up company claims it has developed an iron-based battery that can store large amounts of power and discharge it over the course of many days. 

Israel will double its tax on single-use plastic goods.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources wants to make surfing a crime.