As night falls, bumblebees revisit their favorite flowers.

Heat accumulation in the upper ocean accelerates, with the current rate in the top two kilometers double what it was in the 1960s.

Billions of crabs are missing, and the annual crab harvest is canceled completely.

China’s birthrate collapses, with births barely outpacing deaths.

After Saudi-led OPEC cuts oil production by 2 million barrels a day, President Biden releases 15 million barrels of oil from the United States’ strategic petroleum reserve. The Saudis had initially sought even larger production cuts, in an apparent effort to aid Russia and to boost the Republican Party’s prospects in the midterm elections.

Leaders of Germany’s Green Party agree to a plan to extend the operating lives of the country’s last three nuclear plants in order to avoid an energy shortage this winter.

Alaska offers all unleased land in its North Slope—an area the size of Taiwan—for oil and gas leasing.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management schedules a lease sale off the coast of central California for offshore wind energy sites, the first such sale on the Pacific coast, for December 6.

Tesla installed more battery storage in the third quarter of 2022 than did any individual country.

A survey of US waterways shows that 83 percent are contaminated with PFAS, “forever chemicals.”

The flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is on the rise in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

In Tennessee, people can walk and drive vehicles in the dry bed of the Mississippi River.

Because of wildfires in the Cascades, air quality in Seattle is among the worst in the world.

The amount of carbon dioxide released by California’s 2020 wildfires was twice as much as all the emissions reductions in the state since 2003.

Black wolves are more likely to survive canine distemper virus. In Yellowstone, gray wolves prefer black mates in order to confer protection on their offspring.

Climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil throw tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery.

California approves a $140 million desalination plant at Dana Point in Orange County.