"A new policy in China could ramp up the nation’s production of green hydrogen for use in airplanes, ships, and other heavy industries, potentially eclipsing output of the fuel in the United States and Europe."

"Dozens of nations have failed to strengthen their climate targets — a requirement of the Paris Agreement — as they race toward global negotiations next month with planet-warming pollution on the rise."

"From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection."

"Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas sometimes eat their suitors."

"A diplomatic row has erupted over the “illegal” detention of one of Ukraine’s scientists, who has been accused by the Kremlin of undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in Antarctica."

"In a month’s time, nearly 200 countries will gather at the gates of the Amazon rainforest for a new round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. But there is still intense discussion about what the main outcome ought to be."

"A French oil company engaged in “misleading commercial practices” about the scope of its environmental commitments, a court has ruled."

"The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it."

"U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia for the first time in his second term, targeting oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft as his frustration grows with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war."