GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

 -The world’s 10 largest oil-consuming countries accounted for 61% of the global share

-Utility-scale solar and wind projects account for 90% of all new builds

-Trump Administration’s actions to crippl…

-Trump  administration will not approve solar or wind power projects

-3.5 million New Yorkers have  water systems that have so-called forever chemicals

-Record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to…

-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…

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 …

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…

• The International Court of Justice said that states must protect people from the “urgent and existential threat” of climate change
• The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway.
• Trump ad…

-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 riv…

-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

-T…

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 …

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 t…

-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 g…

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 commerci…

-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 f…

-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 …

-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 mill…

-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 …

-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 kill…

-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 …

-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 disas…

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 …