Nearly a thousand migrating songbirds crash into the lighted windows of Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside Center in a single night, creating “a carpet of dead birds.”

In Cyprus, 345,000 songbirds were captured by poachers in 2022 in order to supply restaurants where they are considered a delicacy. 

Average daily bicycle trips in the US increased by 37 percent from 2019 to 2022.

Swiss glaciers have lost 10 percent of their volume in the past two years. 

The water-based orange paint used by German climate protesters to spray Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate makes it harder and more expensive to remove. 

The number of new offshore oil wells permitted by the Biden administration hits a 19-year low.

Malaysia’s Wildlife Department is criticized for using puppies as a lure to capture black panthers. 

In Alaska, the winner of Katmai National Park’s 2023 Fat Bear Contest—with 108,321 votes—is Bear 128, “Grazer.”

General Motors agrees to bring its Ultium Cells battery plant in Chicago under the UAW’s master contract, a major win for the striking union. 

Starting in January, the $7,500 US tax credit for electric vehicles can be taken as a point-of-sale rebate.

Heavy monsoon rains in the northern India state of Sikkim cause a dam to fail, killing at least 41 people. India is trying to rapidly increase hydroelectric generation to meet its climate goals but had been told the dam was prone to failure. 

Dozens of US utilities have pledged to become “carbon neutral” by 2030, but only 30 percent have plans to replace existing fossil fuel generation with renewables by then. 

An underwater methane gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia is damaged “as a result of external activity.”

Samples of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx project show evidence of carbon and water, the building blocks of life.