-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.