More than 100 million people in the US are on heat alert. A heat wave in Texas and the South sets all-time records, including a heat index reading of 125°F in Corpus Christi. 

The record temperatures in Texas are connected to changes in the jet stream over the Arctic. 

Fires burn across Canada. Wildfire smoke returns to New York. 

California establishes an insurance fund for prescribed and cultural burns.

Despite pledges by the world’s nations at COP26, destruction of Earth’s rainforests soared in 2022. An area the size of Switzerland was cleared, mostly for cattle ranching, agriculture, and mining.

Burning forests in the Amazon are connected to melting glaciers in the Himalayas.

Malaria returns to Texas and Florida for the first time since 2003.

Texas is able to avoid blackouts due to its renewable power sources, especially solar. 

In New England, rooftop solar enables the retirement of the region’s dirtiest power plant, gas-powered Mystic Generating Station.

The extent of Antarctic sea ice is nearly half a million square miles less than its previous minimum last year.

Water temperatures in the North Atlantic reach “utterly unbelievable” levels.

House Republicans seek to prevent President Biden from declaring a climate emergency.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis says that, if elected president in 2024, he would eliminate the Department of Energy, which he cites as an example of “woke ideology.”

Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger resigns, citing PTSD from the death threats he received over his climate coverage.

Norway approves 19 new offshore oil and gas drilling projects.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, and WildEarth Guardians call on the US to stop importing Saudi Arabian oil because of the threat that climate change poses to the US economy.

US oil and gas production is at a three-year low.

Pioneering electric truck maker Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy. 

National Geographic lays off all of its staff writers. 

Humans have withdrawn enough groundwater to shift the tilt of Earth’s axis. 

A coffee variety similar in taste to Arabica but able to tolerate temperatures more than 12°F warmer is revived in Sierra Leone. 

The USDA authorizes the sale of cell-cultured chicken.

Horseshoe bats in Southeast Asia are found to carry a wide variety of new coronaviruses, some from the same group as SARS-CoV-2.

Russia brands the World Wildlife Fund as a “foreign agent.”

An orca rams a yacht, this time off the Shetland Islands in the North Sea.

Unto the dwindling band of southern resident orcas in the Salish Sea, a calf is born.