The Danish Hedgehog Project documents a 16-year-old hedgehog—nine years older than the previous record holder.

Beavers will return to London after a 400-year absence.

Russia is intentionally draining Ukraine’s huge Kahovske reservoir, the source of cooling water to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. 

Avian influenza, a.k.a. bird flu, is infecting mammals, increasing the risk that it may spread to humans. 

Climate change fuels an enormous outbreak of cholera in Africa, particularly in Malawi. 

Unseasonable warmth in Vermont leads to the deaths of three ice fishermen on Lake Champlain. 

Antarctic sea ice is at a record low.

Norway, China, Russia, and other nations are racing to harvest krill from Antarctic waters. The tiny crustacean, a crucial food source for whales and penguins, is being used to feed farmed salmon and pets, and for humans as an alternative to fish oil. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for urgent action on climate change as rising sea levels threaten to cause “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale,” affecting nearly a billion of Earth’s people.

David Malpass, the president of the World Bank who has been widely criticized as a climate denier, will step down.

Due to warmer temperatures in the Alps, the Swiss canton of Valais sees a proliferation of prickly pear cacti. 

Encouraged by $7.5 billion in federal aid, Tesla announces that it will open 3,500 new and existing “Superchargers” to other makes of electric vehicles by late 2024.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections from grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies.

Fearing a repeat of 2019, when hundreds of thousands of visitors flocked to Lake Elsinore, California, to see its “superbloom” of poppies, the town is advising people to watch them on its livestream poppy-cam—or risk jail time.