A quarantine is imposed on New Port Richey, Florida, after giant African land snails—an invasive species that can grow to be up to eight inches long—are discovered in the area.

After a shark bites a lifeguard at Smith Point Beach on Long Island, authorities deploy drones to protect beachgoers from further encounters. 

The world’s supply of recoverable oil shrank by 9 percent in 2021 and by a similar amount in 2020. 

Despite high gas prices, sales of Ford’s light trucks and SUVs increase, respectively, by 26 percent and 36 percent. 

In April, nearly 30 percent of US electricity generation came from renewable sources. For the first time, wind and solar alone surpassed nuclear.

The Department of Energy will purchase a million pounds of uranium for a new strategic reserve, in part so as not to be dependent on Russia. 

After a contentious vote, the European Union declares investments in gas and nuclear power to be climate-friendly. 

South Korea will build four new nuclear reactors, and extend the lives of 10 others, in an effort to meet its climate goals.

Nonviolent climate protesters in New South Wales, Australia, are now subject to $15,000 fines and two years in jail. 

A “derecho” wind storm in South Dakota turns the sky green. 

Human pee may be key to saving the seagrass upon which Florida’s manatees depend. 

In 2021, 828 million people went hungry, an increase of 150 million since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A Yukon miner discovers a perfectly preserved 35,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth in the permafrost of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, whose elders named it Nun cho ga.

Low water levels in Lake Powell have enabled invasive smallmouth bass to breach Glen Canyon Dam and reach the lower Colorado River, where they threaten the rare, native humpback chub.  

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources uses $600,000 of federal funds allocated for Great Lakes restoration to rebrand the fish formerly known as Asian carp or invasive carp as “copi.”

A New Hampshire distillery is making whiskey flavored with invasive green crabs. 

Seals in Maine are becoming stranded and dying at three times the normal rate, apparently after contracting avian influenza. The virus can leap from birds to mammals (but not humans).

The rain is not falling in Spain, which with Portugal is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years. China is suffering from record heat and record rainfall.

After a weeks-long heat wave, a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier in the Italian Alps breaks off and falls, killing at least nine hikers. 

California enacts the nation’s toughest restrictions on single-use plastics. 

Captain Eo, a Magellanic penguin at the San Francisco Zoo described as “an older sophisticated gentleman,” dies at age 40.