1. 2025 on Track to Be
Second Warmest Year Ever

2. No Mention of Planet-Warming Fossil Fuels in COP30 Agreement

3. Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations End Without Deal Again

4. World’s Top Court Lays Out
Historic Protections For Climate

5. Scientists Confirm Largest Coral Bleaching Event on Record Affecting Nearly 84% of World’s Reefs

6. Climate Change ‘Supercharged’ Deadly Asian Storms That Killed More Than 1,800

7. Trump Signs Executive Orders to Blow to US Emissions Reduction Efforts

8. ‘Historic’ UN-Led High Seas Treaty to Take Effect in 2026

9. Green Sea Turtles No Longer Endangered Species in Major Conservation Win

10. Fossil Fuel Companies Intensified Hundreds of Heatwaves Worldwide This Century

July 4, 2026 -One person is missing after a boat crashed into a jetty along the Massachusetts North Shore overnight.

Massachusetts State Police said troopers responded to the report of a crash along the jetty at Salisbury Beach Reservation at 10:35 p.m. Friday.

Jeff Ramsay, who lives nearby and witnessed the search, said he saw "all kinds of flashing lights" out on the water overnight.

July 4, 2026 -As wildfires rip across the parched American West, federal firefighters say they are facing immense pressure and grappling with a shortage of resources that has worsened following the Trump administration’s staffing cuts.

A collision of risky conditions have made things harder as the summer gets underway: a warm, dry winter; prolonged drought; snowless mountains; thick fuels that have had time to cure — elements that have set the stage for what could be a hellish fire year. The scenario started rearing its head in March and intensified over the last few weeks, with about 50 large fires now burning across the United States, and Utah and Colorado experiencing particularly large or destructive blazes.

July 4, 2026 -More than half a century after one of Montana’s most destructive mining disasters poisoned the upper Blackfoot River, a new gold exploration project near the river’s headwaters is sparking concerns about whether its decades of environmental recovery could be at risk.

Last month, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved an amended exploration license for Australia-based Sentinel Metals to conduct additional drilling at its Columbia Gold Project, located near Lincoln in western Montana. The approval allows the company, which does business in Montana as Great Plains Mining LLC, to drill up to 21 exploratory holes, some reaching depths of 2,300 feet, in a mountainous area with streams that eventually flow into the Blackfoot River.