Per minute of use, TikTok produces twice as much carbon dioxide as Instagram, three times as much as Facebook, and five times as much as YouTube.

The climate damage of Bitcoin mining, as a proportion of its market value, is as bad as beef production, burning gasoline, and gold mining.

Flaring of natural gas results in emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane five times greater than previously thought.

Russia and Saudi Arabia flex their power by agreeing to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day.

The death toll in Florida from Hurricane Ian rises to more than 100. Of the 1.8 million households in the nine Florida counties that President Biden declared disaster areas because of the storm, less than a third had flood insurance, leaving thousands of flooded-out homeowners facing financial ruin.

President Biden tours the devastation along with Florida governor Ron DeSantis. “I think the one thing this has finally ended,” says Biden, “is a discussion about whether or not there’s climate change, and [that] we should do something about it.” DeSantis has previously derided climate science as “left-wing stuff.”

A well-known Cape Romano, Florida, “dome home”—a string of six geodesic domes designed to withstand hurricanes—succumbs to Ian. A video purportedly of a shark swimming in a Fort Myers backyard during the hurricane that was widely dismissed as fraudulent turns out to be real.

Drone footage from South Africa provides the first direct proof of orcas hunting and killing great white sharks (video).

Democratic representative Jared Golden of Maine wants Congress to withhold funds from California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium because its Seafood Watch program recommended that people stop eating lobster. Seafood Watch issued the advisory because the US and Canadian lobster fisheries use equipment that can entangle the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

The Australian government sets a new goal of preventing any further extinctions of native wildlife.

The Labor Department says that lithium-ion batteries from the Democratic Republic of the Congo might be produced with child labor, and that polysilicon production in China (a key element of solar panels) may involve forced labor.

The advocacy group Global Witness names Mexico as the country most dangerous for environmental activists, after 54 are killed in 2021, nearly half of them Indigenous people.

Starting in 2023, California pedestrians who safely cross streets between intersections (“jaywalkers”) will no longer be ticketed.

Carl, San Francisco’s alpha coyote, is shot and killed by a USDA sharpshooter.

The government of Alberta, Canada, returns Manitou Asinîy, a 300-pound iron meteorite also known as the Creator’s Stone, to the First Nations from whom it was stolen 150 years ago.