A new subspecies of rainbow trout is identified in California’s McCloud River. After consultation with the Winnemem Wintu people, it is named O. mykiss calisulat (“beautiful trout”) in the Wintu language.

The Bureau of Land Management proposes elevating conservation as a formal use of public lands on a par with grazing, recreation, and energy development.

A wolverine is spotted along the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon.

The Fish and Wildlife Service withdraws a Trump-era proposal to allow bear-baiting in Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

Corporate interests were able to water down the latest IPCC report, removing references to fossil fuels and meat eating and adding recommendations for carbon-capture technologies.

Australian scientists warn that by 2050, current rapid Antarctic melting could slow down a massive deep-ocean current, altering Earth’s climate for centuries to come.

A powerful tornado kills at least 25 people in Mississippi, causing widespread destruction in the Black community of Rolling Fork. The Sierra Club is helping to raise funds for affected communities; you can donate here.

The countries of the European Union will ban the sale of internal combustion vehicles by 2035.

California enacts a law penalizing windfall profits for the oil industry.

In 2022, renewable electricity generation surpassed both coal and nuclear power. Methane gas remained the largest source of US electricity generation.

One hundred thousand new green jobs have been created since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Despite the ongoing Russian invasion, Ukraine completes the first stage of a 500-megawatt wind farm.

Uracil and vitamin B3, both important elements of terrestrial life, are detected in a sample of a near-Earth asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

Scientists discover concentrations of pure DDT in the waters off Los Angeles spread over an area larger than the city of San Francisco.

An Australian start-up has created a lab-grown meatball containing DNA from a mammoth.

In the course of a 59-year-old man’s routine colonoscopy, doctors discover a live ladybug in his transverse colon.