GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-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 e...

-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 pose...

Deaths from C atastrophic 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 emergenc...

-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.  -S outhern France is choking unde...

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 pollutan...

-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”...

-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 drinkin...

-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 micropl...

-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  -Cheetah...

-China attains the nation's first zero-carbon island -Seventeen Hoboken youth receive this year’s Youth Climate Action Fund grant -E xtreme 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 inc...

-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 f ell by 25 % last year  Eight of the top 10 o...

-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”....

-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 o...

-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...

-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 othe...

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

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 el...

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 inte...

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...

 A tmospheric 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