A recently published study finds that the current heat wave embroiling Europe would be “virtually impossible” were it not for human-made climate change. The study from World Weather Attribution notes that, over the regions of the continent they examined, this heat wave is the most severe that has ever been seen, with nearly half of the cities and geographical areas observed breaking heat…
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A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County…
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Sweeping revisions to U.S. climate policy in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term have spawned a wave of protective litigation, legal challenges aimed not at advancing new climate goals but at preventing the rollbacks of existing regulation and preserving hard-won legal gains. The challenges to the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks, funding freezes and dismantling…
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Max hears the plane before anyone else.
A low hum threads through the morning air above the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya’s central highlands. As it grows louder — a small propeller drifting in from Mount Kenya — Max is already moving.
He snatches a dry branch, paces the electric fence, and begins shouting — ah-ah-ah — his cries rising into a scream at the sky. He swings his arm and sends the stick flying upward. His hair bristles along his spine.
“It’s because of the plane,” says Stephen Mukundi, the sanctuary’s head caregiver. “He is remembering Burundi during the civil war.”
An view of Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, set on the southeastern edge of the 360-square-kilometer Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia County — the only refuge of its kind in Kenya. Photo by Jaclynn Ashly.
A caregiver hands food through the fence at Sweetwaters. The sanctuary’s caregivers live on-site around the clock, learning each chimpanzee’s temperament so closely that they decide every evening who can safely sleep beside whom. Photo by Jaclynn Ashly.
Stephen Mukundi, the sanctuary’s head caregiver, walks the perimeter of the enclosure. He arrived at Ol Pejeta in 1996 and has known most of the chimpanzees here since they were infants — a second family, he says, that he has watched go from trauma to becoming chimpanzees again. Photo by Jaclynn Ashly.
Max was born in Burundi in 1988. Captured as an infant — his mother presumed killed — he spent his early years with a French film crew before being confiscated in 1990 at around two years old, and transferred to the Jane Goodall Institute’s rescue center in Bujumbura.
When the Burundian civil war
Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy of Alaska has ordered state lawmakers to attend special legislative sessions over the summer and pass lucrative tax breaks for Alaska LNG, a proposed massive fossil gas export terminal on the Cook Inlet with an 800-mile pipeline across pristine wildlife preserves and much of the state. With plans to export liquified “natural gas,” or LNG, to Asia…
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A new poll demonstrates that nearly two-thirds of registered voters across the U.S. believe the climate crisis is contributing to increases in their home utility bills. The survey, conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications and published earlier this week, also notes that, ahead of the 2026 midterms, there is a strong preference among the American electorate for candidates…
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