The German Cultural Council criticizes activists from the climate group Last Generation for gluing themselves to the frames of famous paintings. 

Melting glaciers in Greenland will inevitably raise global sea levels by 10 inches by the end of the century.

Jackson, the majority-Black capital of Mississippi, has no clean drinking water.

One-third of Pakistan is under water, and more than a thousand people have perished in catastrophic monsoon flooding. 

Drought in Bordeaux forces the earliest grape harvest in history.

Faced with a powerful heat wave, California asks drivers not to charge their EVs during peak hours.

Zimbabwe moves more than 2,500 wild animals, including 400 elephants, 2,000 impalas, 70 giraffes, 50 buffaloes, 50 wildebeest, 50 zebras, 50 elands, 10 lions, and 10 wild dogs, to a game reserve 435 miles to the north to escape drought-ravaged Savé Valley Conservancy. 

Montana ranchers sue to stop the conservation group American Prairie from grazing bison on federal land, maintaining it should be reserved for commercial livestock. 

Milkweed plants bought at nurseries may expose Monarch butterflies to toxic pesticides. 

The EPA lists two PFAS chemicals—PFOS and PFOA—as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, giving itself the authority to enforce cleanups.  

The Biden administration will spend $560 million to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells.

Hawai'i closes its only coal-fired power plant.

US coal-mine employment has risen under the Biden administration. 

A United Nations inspection team arrives at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by invading Russian forces and in the middle of an active war zone.  

Russia halts gas deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline indefinitely. Denmark and Germany will vastly expand their offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea to provide an alternative to Russian gas.  

Ravil Maganov, the chair of Russian oil and gas company Lukoil who had spoken out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “dies after falling out of a hospital window.” 

The city of Lakewood, New Jersey, cuts down all the trees in its town square in an attempt to deter homeless people from lingering there.

Working from home saves US workers 6 billion miles of commuting each week.  

In Brazil, the last surviving member of an unknown tribe speaking an unknown language from the Tanaru Indigenous Territory in the Amazon dies, apparently of natural causes, covered in colorful feathers.