April 2, 2025

Michigan officials are monitoring a cruise oil spill in the St. Clair River on the Canada side. (Paula Wethington/CBS News Detroit)

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration finds Texas is leading in the country’s renewable energy growth, including solar and wind power. (Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News)

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Utility providers are flying blind on data center energy needs as AI increases demands. (Jeff St. John/Canary Media)

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A new study finds one-third of U.S. bird species are in critical need of conservation action, as populations across every habitat are in decline. (Sarah Metz/CBS News)

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Extreme temperatures and severe droughts are affecting coffee harvests in Brazil, driving up costs for consumers as demand grows. (Marina Dias, Terrence McCoy/The Washington Post)

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A jury orders the environmental group Greenpeace must pay a pipeline company over $660 million for its role in protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. (Karen Zraick/The New York Times)

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Analysis finds one in eight California residents face extreme fire danger living in the designated most dangerous wildfire zones. (Anna Phillips, John Muyskens, Naema Ahmen, Brady Dennis//The Washington Post)

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New internal records show the National Institute of Health (NIH) will no longer fund research work on the health effects of climate change. (Annie Waldman, Sharon Lerner/ProPublica)

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A new proposal passed in Paris making over 500 city streets car free and replacing miles of asphalt with trees across the city. (Reuters)

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The Trump administration EPA was temporarily blocked from stopping more than $14 billing in grants to climate groups. (Cristen Hemingway Jaynes/EcoWatch)

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A first-of-its-kind assessment finds more than 22 percent of native pollinators are at an elevated risk of extinction in North America. (Doyle Rice/USA Today)

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President Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax imposed on greenhouse gas emissions before it fully went into effect. (Zoya Teirstein/Grist)

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Then there’s this…

Cougar cubs were spotted in Michigan for the first time in over 100 years after being hunted out of existence. (Max Reinhart/The Detroit News)