Mosquitoes are attracted to specific colors (red, orange, and black) and not others (blue, green, white). 

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts a sea level rise of 10 to 12 inches along US coasts by 2050. 

The drought in the western United States is the most severe in 1,200 years. Climate change has made it 40 percent worse.

California will try to reduce evaporation and increase clean energy by covering portions of open-water canals with solar panels. 

Germany aims to quadruple the country’s solar capacity by encouraging farmers to set aside up to 15 percent of their fields for solar panels.

Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant will shut down seven years early because its CEO says it can’t compete with renewables. 

The Interior Department’s inspector general finds that Ryan Zinke, interior secretary during the Trump administration, misused his office to further a private development project in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana, and then lied about it.  

Motorists killed 20 percent more pedestrians in 2020, and apparently still more in 2021. 

California sues Tesla, saying the company discriminated against Black workers at its Bay Area plant.

A new study finds that corn ethanol likely causes 24 percent more carbon emissions than straight gasoline. 

According to the EPA, the United States has exceeded the pledge made by the Obama administration at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 17 percent of 2005 levels by the year 2020. 

More than 70 environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, petition President Biden to issue an executive order putting tougher restrictions on logging old-growth trees in federal forests.  

Alaska’s Republican senators propose to punish Russia for threatening Ukraine by banning imports of Russian seafood.

Australia says koalas are an endangered species. 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is worried about “counterfeit, fraudulent, or suspect” items present in US nuclear power plants. 

Patagonia, REI, North Face, and other outdoor recreation industry giants are vowing not to attend Emerald Expositions’ Outdoor Retailer trade show if it moves back to Salt Lake City, so long as Utah continues its attacks on the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monuments.

Cristina Calderón, the last Native speaker of Chile’s Yaghan language, dies at 93.