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GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

Kevin Gallagher
A weekly aggregation of ecological and climate events occurring around the world.
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GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines in 4 minutes

-Miami's drinking water is threatened by Nuclear power plant leak -2,300 people died of heat-related causes during European severe heatwave -PFAS now contaminate the bodies of nearly all Europeans -The Great Green Wall of the Sahara is a modern ecological wonder -The Golden Plains wind farm in Australia is now its biggest wind farm -Pope Leo XIV is committed to emphasizing the dangers posed to humanity by climate change....

Jul 14, 20255 minEp. 271

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Deaths from C atastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 Trump “ends taxpayer support for unaffordable and unreliable ‘green’ energy sources” State of the Climate in Asia report , 2024 was ranked as the hottest year New York City has a new elevated waterfront park just opened A growing number of American cities using “cool roofs....

Jul 09, 20254 minEp. 270

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Major heat waves hit southern Europe India also struggling with heat waves Majority of Britain’s want the most polluting companies to face tax hikes The Caspian Sea level is likely to decline by up to 59 feet Proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands across Western states halted E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work Texas has lowest chance of power supply emergencies in years Solar is now California’s #1 electricity source...

Jul 02, 20254 minEp. 269

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-The risk of encountering ticks outdoors in the New York area is very high. -The global food system faces growing risks from climate change -EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants ruled illegal. -The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. -S outhern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution -Just 4. companies are top four companies contributing the most to...

Jul 02, 20254 minEp. 268

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

The DOJ says the President has the power to eliminate national monuments to make way for development Global EV sales surged in May 2025 Pennsylvania to protect farmland from residential and commercial development Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a first ever heat advisory World Meteorological Organization state of the climate report released, Scientists detect a unique kind of toxic organic pollutant in the Western Hemisphere. Japanese scientists have created a new family of recyclable plastics...

Jun 19, 20255 minEp. 267

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Costa Rica shapes the global agenda on marine protection and ocean governance -Ocean acidification entered a "danger zone" in 2020 -EPS may repeal rules limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants - coastal flooding is happening much more often previously known -Trump administration has fired all of its content production staff of Climate.gov -Climate change will “quadruple” the likelihood of conflict over scarce resources - Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Ga...

Jun 13, 20255 minEp. 266

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Smoke from wildfires in Canada effecting large parts of the U.S. -Nigerian Flooding finds 500 missing and presumed dead and thousands displaced -Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants -More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders worldwide -Widespread use of drifting net devices harm ocean life and coastal communities

Jun 13, 20255 minEp. 265

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Kentucky tornado characterized by widespread damage and loss of life -World’s largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, in China, explodes -Building collisions, responsible for between 100 million and 1 billion birds killed annually -Groundwater pumping in Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs. -County in West Virginia known for having the most public drinking water violations -In Indiana, putting Up Solar Panels Is doing God’s Work...

May 29, 20254 minEp. 264

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Republicans seek to dismantle many of the benefits of the inflation reduction act. -All 1,200 scientists and staff at the U.S. Geological Survey’s biological research arm may lose jobs - Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals illegally -Certain detergent additives can be transformed into glyphosate -Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans. -Harpy eagles reappear in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle...

May 29, 20255 minEp. 263

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Cleaner, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in U.S. -China’s clean power generation causes nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall -At least 32 people killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia tornadoes - Intense heat wave that swept through many areas of Texas -NOAA will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters -Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on Earth are in a race against extinction....

May 19, 20254 minEp. 262

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-China attains the nation's first zero-carbon island -Seventeen Hoboken youth receive this year’s Youth Climate Action Fund grant -E xtreme weather is affecting homeowner's insurance market -Nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution -Cairo ’s skies turned a dusty yellow from powerful khamsin sandstorm -New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year - Brazil to seize private lands where forests have been illegally razed...

May 12, 20255 minEp. 261

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Alaska, is warming two- to three-times faster than the global average -Gray whales along the West Coast are dying at alarming rates -Gutting of USAID cuts off data used to warn people of weather disasters and food shortages -China has led an environmental campaign of historic proportions -14 Good climate news Stories

May 05, 20255 minEp. 260

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Pope Francis and St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology and environmental champion. EPA looks to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases. EPA hides data that ON locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US. Broadcast news coverage of climate change f ell by 25 % last year Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antar...

Apr 28, 20254 minEp. 259

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-U.N.report calls for transformative societal and economic changes to staunch global warming, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. -More than 80,000 homes in the tri-state area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years -Trump administration aims to increase timber production by 25 percent on federal lands -Interior secretary Doug Burgum says endangered species list, needs “cleaning out”. - Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation -Ann Arbor, Mich., ...

Apr 21, 20255 minEp. 258

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-110 words and phrases have been banned from use at the U.S. Agricultural Research Service -Different types of extreme weather have been affecting several regions of the U.S. -NOAA has halted upkeep of critical Joint Polar Satellite System weather satellites -Ecosystems in the water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change -Indonesia is planning to clear 20 million hectares of forest to make way for agriculture

Apr 12, 20255 minEp. 257

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain -India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste -Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road -Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming -A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

Apr 08, 20255 minEp. 256

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-Rollback of pollution protections could help usher back acid rain -India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste -Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road -Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming -A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

Apr 06, 20255 minEp. 255

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-World Meteorological Organization publishes State of the Climate report - NASA analysis, shows that sea levels rose more than expected in 2024. - 2025 may usher in an era of record-breaking hurricanes -prediction more intense hurricanes in 2025 due to increase in ocean temperatures. -U.S. Energy Secretary “global warming is a side effect of building the modern world” -China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, reported Slower oil demand growth 2024- -If the world covered every suitable r...

Mar 25, 20254 minEp. 254

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-EPA head Zeldin says he intends to reconsider many core EPA rules and regulations -US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular updates -50 percent all carbon emissions can be attributed to just 36 high-emitting companies -Pakistan has the worst winter smog season in several years -Less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than any other on record -Pacific island nation of Nauru selling citizenships to fund its retreat from rising seas ...

Mar 14, 20255 minEp. 253

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

A new EPA candidate said last week that the U.S. should “adapt to” rather than try to minimize climate change. New E xecutive order by President Donald Trump expands tree felling for timber on 280 million acres of U S forests . Researchers protecting crucial climate data on government websites from DOGE. 145 USDA who protect U S from tiny invasive pests at our ports, Terminated. NOAA employees are speaking out about the chaotic DOGE firings. Glaciers worldwide have lost a staggering 6,542 billio...

Mar 08, 20254 minEp. 252

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Four critical pillars of the planets ecology are on the brink of collapse. EPA to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare GSA plans to shut down all 8,000 of its EV chargers. Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration over purge of climate-related policies datasets, and resources from its websites California to protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 ...

Feb 28, 20255 minEp. 251

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

More than 30% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation capacity comes from renewables China no longer increasing its fossil fuel consumption due to renewables commitment Cleaning of the Yamuna river, one of the most polluted rivers in India,begins World's oceans hit their highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024 affecting weather US Fish and Wildlife Service, froze its vast portfolio of international conservation grants The world's farmland is getting drier and saltie NOAA avoided making a...

Feb 28, 20255 minEp. 250

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress Six largest banks in the U .S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle Billionaire Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization Spain s flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st centur...

Feb 19, 20255 minEp. 246

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

A tmospheric river pummeled Southern California Californians faces back-to-back earthquakes California is sinking in some areas Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°Celsius of global warming Honolulu officials to proceed with a lawsuit against the Oil industry Approximately 27,000 farmed salmon escaped from a farm off the Norwegian coast...

Feb 17, 20254 minEp. 249

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency Colombia’s cancels a joint venture between state energy company and Occidental Petroleum South Florida’s wealthiest communities elevating streets above flood water levels. The Greenland ice sheet is cracking more rapidly The Aral Sea now forms the Aralkum desert. U.S. real estate market could a trillion dollars in value due to Climate change Department of Agriculture bold new stance on climate change: out of...

Feb 17, 20255 minEp. 248

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Trump reversing progress steps to regulate toxic PFAS Swiss Farmers suing their government for failing to act on climate change Researchers propose method making ammonia without emissions. 15-year-old from N C designs a home that withstands category-four hurricane-force winds China broke its own records for renewable energy installation in 2024, Wind and Solar Generated More US Energy Than Coal in 2024...

Feb 17, 20255 minEp. 247

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress Six largest banks in the U .S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle Billionaire Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization Spain's flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st centur...

Jan 27, 20255 minEp. 245

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

Trump administration promises to undermine environmental progress Six largest banks in the U .S. leave Net Zero Banking Alliance U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle Billionaire Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization Spain s flooding in October severely impacted the natorangeion's crop yields, Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st centur...

Jan 27, 20255 minEp. 244

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

-The latest on the LA fires, -Climate change fueled LA fires intensity - FIREAID an “evening of music and solidarity

Jan 13, 20254 minEp. 243

GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines

California has no blackouts when wind, water and solar electricity exceeded 100% of demand Montana Supreme Court upholds a landmark victory for youth climate activists Portugal is now home to Europe's largest Marine Protected Area network China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates its own energy. The UK to stop producing electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance on coal California banned the use of most expanded plastic foam food containers on Janu...

Jan 03, 20255 minEp. 242
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