A peat-fueled “zombie fire” is burning in -76°F temperatures in Siberia. 

An extremely rare swarm of December tornadoes strike Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee, killing at least 90 people. 

The ice shelf that restrains Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier could fail within five years. Total collapse of the glacier would result in a sea level rise of several feet. 

Rain replaces snow as the most common precipitant in the Arctic.  

Killer whales are expanding their range into the increasingly ice-free Arctic. 

Up to one-fifth of the world’s giant sequoia trees have burned in recent wildfires.  

More than 800,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19. 

The burning of fossil fuels contributes to the deaths of more than a million people annually. 

President Joe Biden signs an executive order to make the US government climate neutral by 2050.  

The Canadian developer of the proposed Jordan Cove pipeline and liquefied natural gas export terminal in southwestern Oregon abandons the project.

New York City bans gas appliances in new buildings. 

A 200-megawatt solar project, Kentucky’s largest, is being built on the site of a former coal mine by former coal miners.  

Florida wildlife officials are feeding the state’s starving manatees. 

The US Fish and Wildlife Service will kill mountain lions in order to let California bighorn sheep reestablish a range in Oregon’s Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, following a 67 percent decline in sheep numbers there over the past four years. 

Someone in Oregon poisoned all five members of the Catherine wolf pack, along with three other wolves from other packs. 

OR-93, the Oregon-born wolf that crossed into California and roamed widely, is killed by a car on Highway 5. 

Climate change is leading to an increase in “divorce” among famously monogamous albatrosses. 

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland declares “squaw” to be a derogatory term and orders her department’s Board on Geographic Names to find replacement names on federal lands. 

Rich people in the United States are responsible for far more global warming than rich people in other countries.  

Norway is running out of fossil-fuel-powered cars to tax.