GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Washington State is experiencing at least moderate drought conditions 

-Heavy rain and flash flooding lashed Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week. 

-U.S. rejected the "Net-Zero Framework" proposal by the International Maritime Organization

-Trump administration officials instructed NASA to terminate and destroy the U S Orbiting Carbon Observatories tools, 

-Europe’s glaciers are shrinking faster, than anywhere else on Earth.

-A woman wins $10,000 by removing 60 invasive pythons from South Florida in just 10 days.

-Mediterranean countries are fighting invasive species by turni...

Trump administration preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants that helps low
income families install solar panels on their homes 

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force the EPA to reinstate its  $3b climate program

Three chemical producers reach a historic 2 Billion dollar settlement with the state of New Jersey

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral in nearly 40 years 

Phoenix Arizona has heat that is one for the history books.  The mercury went up to 118 degrees

Extreme heat episode will...

Tampa Bay area’s most intense heat wave on record hit 119F

Much of the U S sweated under a brutal heatwave last week

Bridgeport Ct.  reached 95 degrees last week, tying a 1949 record  .

Nordic countries are experiencing “truly unprecedented” heat

Greenland ice sheet temperatures approaching the melting point in mid-July. 

Tick infestation closes Bridgeport’s Pleasure beach for the season

Utah's has a state of emergency due to surging wildfires

West Virginia embraces wind driven green energy 

The International Court of Justice r...

The International Court of Justice said that states must protect people from the “urgent and existential threat” of climate changeThe First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway.Trump administration to repeal scientific finding that gives the US government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.Two incurable diseases threaten Missouri’s Soybeans and corn crops.Invasive seaweed from Southeast Asia, describe as a serious threat to Spain's regional biodiversity.Rising salinity in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice fast.New scientific warns largest nor’easter in recorded history may strike the U.S. East Coast. 

-The Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, New Mexico is bone dry. 

-US threatens tariffs and sanctions against Mexico “stealing” water from Texas farmers

-The Mississippi River, North America's largest river system, is under threat

-Kabul Afghanistan the first modern capital city on the verge of running dry.

-Greece faces a growing water scarcity crisis

-The Environmental Protection Agency announces eliminating its scientific division

-The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”,

-Miami's drinking water is threatened by Nuclear power plant leak

-2,300 people died of heat-related causes during European   severe heatwave 

-PFAS now contaminate the bodies of nearly all Europeans

-The Great Green Wall of the Sahara is a modern ecological wonder

-The Golden Plains wind farm in Australia is now its biggest wind farm  

-Pope Leo XIV is  committed to emphasizing the dangers posed to humanity by climate change. 

Deaths from Catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 

Trump “ends taxpayer support for unaffordable and unreliable ‘green’ energy sources”

State of the Climate in Asia report, 2024 was ranked as the hottest  year 

New York City has a new elevated waterfront park just opened 

A growing number of American cities using “cool roofs. 

Major heat waves hit  southern Europe

India also struggling with heat waves

Majority of  Britain’s want the most polluting companies to face tax hikes 

The Caspian Sea level is likely to decline by up to 59 feet 

 Proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands across Western states halted

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work 

Texas has lowest chance of power supply emergencies in years

Solar is now California’s #1 electricity source 

-The risk of encountering ticks outdoors in the New York area is very high.

-The global food system faces growing risks from climate change

-EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants ruled illegal.

-The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. 

-Southern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution 

-Just 4. companies are top four companies contributing the most to plastic pollution. 

-Indiana is stepping up its s...

The DOJ  says the President  has the power to eliminate national monuments to make way for development 

Global EV sales surged in May 2025

Pennsylvania to protect farmland from residential and commercial development

Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a first ever heat advisory 

World Meteorological Organization state of the climate report released, 

Scientists detect a unique kind of toxic organic pollutant in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese scientists have created a new family of recyclable plastics 

-Costa Rica shapes the global agenda on marine protection and ocean governance

-Ocean acidification entered a "danger zone" in 2020

-EPS may repeal rules limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants 

- coastal flooding is happening much more often previously known

-Trump administration has fired all of its content production staff of Climate.gov

-Climate change will “quadruple” the likelihood of conflict over scarce resources

-Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden and install flagpoles 

-Smoke from wildfires in Canada effecting large parts of the U.S.

-Nigerian Flooding finds 500 missing and presumed dead and thousands displaced  

-Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants

-More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders worldwide

-Widespread use of drifting net devices harm ocean life and coastal communities

-Kentucky tornado characterized by widespread damage and loss of life 

-World’s largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, in China, explodes

-Building collisions, responsible for between 100 million and 1 billion birds killed annually 

-Groundwater pumping in Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs.

-County in West Virginia known for having the most public drinking water violations

-In Indiana, putting Up Solar Panels Is doing God’s Work 

-Republicans seek to dismantle many of the benefits of the inflation reduction act. 

-All 1,200 scientists and staff at the U.S. Geological Survey’s biological research arm may lose jobs

-Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals illegally

-Certain detergent additives can be transformed into glyphosate

-Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans.

-Harpy eagles reappear in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle 

-Cleaner, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in U.S.

-China’s clean power generation causes nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall 

-At least 32 people killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia tornadoes

- Intense heat wave that swept through many areas of Texas

-NOAA will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters 

-Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on Earth are in a race against extinction.

-China attains the nation's first zero-carbon island

-Seventeen Hoboken youth receive this year’s Youth Climate Action Fund grant

-Extreme weather is affecting homeowner's insurance market

-Nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution

-Cairo’s skies turned a dusty yellow from powerful khamsin sandstorm

-New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year

- Brazil  to seize private lands where forests have been illeg...

-Alaska, is warming two- to three-times faster than the global average

-Gray whales along the West Coast are dying at alarming rates

-Gutting of USAID cuts off data used to warn people of weather disasters and food shortages

-China has led an environmental campaign of historic proportions 

-14 Good climate news Stories

Pope Francis and St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology and environmental champion.

EPA looks to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases.

EPA hides data that ON locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US.

Broadcast news coverage of climate change fell by 25 % last year 

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation 

Extremely low sea ice...

-U.N.report calls for transformative societal and economic changes to staunch global warming, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss.

-More than 80,000 homes in the tri-state area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years

-Trump administration aims to increase timber production by 25 percent on federal lands

-Interior secretary Doug Burgum says endangered species list, needs “cleaning out”.

-Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation

-Ann Arbor, Mich., has an a...

-110 words and phrases have been banned from use at the U.S. Agricultural Research Service

-Different types of extreme weather have been affecting several regions of the U.S.

-NOAA has halted upkeep of critical Joint Polar Satellite System weather satellites  

-Ecosystems in the water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change

-Indonesia is planning to clear 20 million hectares of forest to make way for agriculture

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-World Meteorological Organization publishes State of the Climate report

-NASA analysis, shows that sea levels rose more than  expected in 2024. 

- 2025 may usher in an era of record-breaking hurricanes

-prediction more intense hurricanes in 2025 due to increase in ocean temperatures.

-U.S. Energy Secretary “global warming is a side effect of building the modern world”

-China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, reported Slower oil demand growth 2024- 
-If the world covered every suitable roof with solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanity’s electricity
- the first...

-EPA head Zeldin says he intends to reconsider many core EPA rules and regulations

-US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular updates 

-50 percent all carbon emissions can be attributed to just 36 high-emitting companies

-Pakistan has the worst winter smog season in  several years

-Less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than any other on record

-Pacific island nation of Nauru selling citizenships to fund its retreat from rising seas

-The US installed largest single year of new so...

A new EPA candidate said last week that the U.S. should “adapt to” rather than try to minimize climate change. 

New Executive order  by President Donald Trump  expands tree felling for timber on 280 million acres of U S forests.

Researchers protecting crucial climate data on government websites from DOGE.

145 USDA who protect U S from  tiny invasive pests at our ports, Terminated.

NOAA employees are speaking out about the chaotic DOGE firings. 

Glaciers worldwide have lost a staggering 6,542 billion tonnes of ice 

California suing fossil fue...

Four critical pillars of the planets ecology are on the brink of collapse.

EPA to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare

GSA plans to shut down all 8,000 of its EV chargers.

Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration over purge of climate-related policies datasets, and resources from its websites

California to protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers

Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million seed samples and welcomes over 14,000...

More than 30% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation capacity comes from renewables

China no longer increasing its fossil fuel consumption due to renewables commitment

Cleaning of the Yamuna river, one of the most polluted rivers in India,begins

World's oceans hit their highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024 affecting weather

US Fish and Wildlife Service, froze its vast portfolio of international conservation grants

The world's farmland is getting drier and saltie

NOAA avoided making any link between January’s record high global temperatures and climate change

Th...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

 Atmospheric river pummeled Southern California 

Californians faces back-to-back earthquakes  

California is sinking in some areas

 Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°Celsius of global warming

 Honolulu officials to proceed with a lawsuit against the Oil industry

Approximately 27,000 farmed salmon escaped from a farm off the Norwegian coast

Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency

Colombia’s cancels a joint venture between state energy company and Occidental Petroleum

South Florida’s wealthiest  communities elevating streets above flood water levels.

The Greenland ice sheet  is cracking more rapidly

The Aral Sea now forms the Aralkum desert.

U.S. real estate market could a trillion dollars in value due to Climate change

Department of Agriculture bold new stance on climate change: out of sight, out of mind.

Trump reversing progress steps to regulate toxic PFAS 

Swiss Farmers suing their government for failing to act on climate change

Researchers propose method making ammonia without emissions.

15-year-old from N C  designs a home that withstands category-four hurricane-force winds

China broke its own records for renewable energy installation in 2024, 

Wind and Solar Generated More US Energy Than Coal in 2024

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization
 
Spain's flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After...

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress

Six largest banks in the U.S. leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the natorangeion's crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After Bird...

-The latest on the LA fires,
-Climate change fueled LA fires intensity
-FIREAID an “evening of music and solidarity

California has no blackouts when wind, water and solar electricity exceeded 100% of demand 

Montana Supreme Court upholds a landmark victory for youth climate activists

Portugal  is now home to Europe's largest Marine Protected Area network

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates its own energy.

The UK to stop producing electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance  on coal

California banned the use of most expanded plastic foam food...

In 2024 Earth sent clear signals that its climate is warming and tipping into unknown territory

Climate change is making Earth wobble and spin more slowly

Earth consistently surpassed 1.5 C of warming.

Global carbon emissions reached all-time highs.

 Atlantic Ocean currents known as  the  (AMOC), could collapse 

 Cuts in emissions from shipping have accidentally accelerated global warming

 Oklahoma’s needs to ban the use of chicken poop as fertilizer

The koala bear is at the real risk of extinction

Deforest...

Montana Supreme Court gives youth activists climate victory

Pacific Northwest and Northern California hit by  atmospheric rivers,

E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning

Cutting-edge onshore wave energy technology comes to the United States

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a is on the move

New research shows unprecedented human-caused warming

Ice free Arctic could occur as early as the summer of 2027.

Climate blamed catastrophic rainfall and droughts in Mediterranean area

microplastics might be affecting planet's weather and climate. 

Enacting 4 policies could eliminate 91 percent of world’s plastic waste 

Southeast Louisiana is losing 100 yards of land every 100 minutes

Europe’s native oyster reefs have collapsed

Texas faces rising sea levels and increased flooding due to climate change  

Portugal has Europe's largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance.

Animal populations are dwindling at an alarming rate.

Lower Basin states California, Nevada and Arizona to slash  Colorado River water use  

Extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans.

Pesticides aren't always necessary.

Human activity is behind a decline in soil quality 

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates  energy.

COP29 is now over with modest deal 

COP29 makes international carbon market a reality

Brazilian cattle industry contributing to illegal deforestation of Amazon.

Wildfires  burned across the Northeast, due to unseasonably warm and dry weather. 

Washington State, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in US.