A dark fungus is spreading “uncontrollably” in Lincoln County, Tennessee, coating cars, homes, trees, and other objects, fed by vapors from the charred oak barrels that age Jack Daniel’s whiskey.

In recognition of the on-screen combat skills of actor Keanu Reaves, German scientists dub a class of fungus-killing anti-microbials “keanumycins.”

Reneging on a campaign promise to end oil drilling on public lands, President Biden approves ConocoPhillips' Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. Over its projected 30 year lifespan, Willow will add more than 260 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, as much as 56 million cars driven for a year, or 66 coal-fired power plants. The Sierra Club sues.

The Republican-dominated Texas Board of Education says that school textbooks should emphasize the “positive” aspects of fossil fuels.

The San Francisco Bay Area will phase out the sale and installation of gas-fired furnaces and water heaters over the next eight years.

Reversing a Trump-era position, the Justice Department sides with communities suing fossil fuel corporations for damages resulting from climate change. 

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reverses another Trump-era agreement to allow a road to be built to the town of King Cove through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

La Niña is over.

Avian flu is infecting camels in Mongolia and skunks in Vancouver.

The BBC refuses to air Sir David Attenborough’s new nature series about the British Isles, Wild Isles, for fear of offending Conservative Party politicians and other right-wing figures.

The Biden administration proposes setting tough standards on PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water. 

The board of the National Audubon Society votes to retain its name and connection with the 19th-century naturalist, artist, and slave holder. Three board members resign in protest. 

Albania protects the Vjosa River—“Europe’s last wild river”—and its tributaries as a national park. 

Maine’s lobster industry sues California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium for putting lobsters on its list of seafood to avoid because of the risk to rare right whales of getting entangled in lobster-fishing gear.

A 5,000-mile-wide blob of sargassum seaweed is beginning to wash up on beaches in the Gulf of Mexico and is headed toward Florida.