-Beijing reported the cleanest year of air the city has ever recorded, attributed mainly to EV’s

-Half of American homeowners are considering moving this year due to extreme weather events.

-Global terrestrial biodiversity hotspots are threatened by human expansion

-Expansion of Port Everglades may unprecedented damage to corals

-A stand of trees 400 years old discovered in North Carolina.

-Trump announces withdrawing the United States from the bedrock international agreement on climate change.

-In 2025, the US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days

-The Thwaites “Doomsday Glacier” is dangerously close to collapse,

-Juneau Alaska has seen a record amount of snow this past December

-Thousands of glaciers may vanish each year in the coming decades

-China saw CO2 emissions fall this year for the first time

-Renewable energy produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain in 2025

-NY’s expanded waste reduction laws took effect on January 1, 2026

-Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

-The CT. Audubon Society's bird of the year is the Pileated woodpecker.

-Trump administration said it would pause leases for five wind farms

-Ohio Farmers Say Regenerative Agriculture Methods Helped Them Survive a Drought

-A new data set map captures every source of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion

-Four biggest oil and gas companies spent the last 25 years deceptively portraying themselves

-This High Seas Treaty pledges to put 30% of these waters into Marine Protected Areas

-Brazil moved to protect existing forest areas called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

-The International Court of Justice cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change

-Several endangered species experienced remarkable comebacks this year

Hello, this is Kevin Gallagher producer of Gaiagram.

As we celebrate the holiday season and the end of the year, I want to take a moment to reflect on the importance of staying aware of the environmental challenges our world continues to face. At the same time, it's vital that we nurture the collective will to make meaningful changes, changes that create a positive and lasting impact on our planet. In that spirit, I’d like to share a few of 2025’s encouraging environmental developments this past year.

-The European Union’s Nature Restoration Law is now in force

-Europe are scaling up environmental restoration

-Biodiversity can rebound when land is managed for nature

-Colorado regulators have order a 41% reduction in emissions

-California has periods consistently generating more than 100% of its electricity demand from renewables

-Ireland is on track to eliminate coal from its energy mix

-Sun Prairie, Wisconsin first city in the state to run all it’s city operations

-North Carolina, planted more than 69,000 native plants, removed over 71,000 pounds of litter

-Connecticut passed a major climate bill that sets a legally grounded net‑zero emissions target for 2050

-Maine accelerates its clean‑energy timeline, for 100% clean electricity goal up to 2040

-Ohio prioritizes clean energy over costly fossil fuels

-In New York, strengthens Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

-New York regulators require a fossil‑fuel‑powered crypto mining plant to cut its greenhouse gas emissions

-March 2025, renewables provided a slim majority of U.S. electricity

-Hawaii replaced its last coal plant with a giant battery

-US has introduced a new limit on toxic “forever chemicals” or PFA’s

A 25-Year-Old Paper On the Controversial Glyphosate Weedkiller has been Retracted

U.S. EPA announces $3 billion in new funding for states to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water

Reaching net zero carbon emissions will not bring quick relief from extreme heat

The beautiful ponderosa pine—is disappearing.

New climate idea, to combat sea level rise, moving seawater to reflood inland depressions.

NYTS SAYS Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War.

-Floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra island displaces over three million people with 3000 injured or missing

-New Delhi air has “severe and life-threatening levels of toxic pollutants.

-Dust from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat

-Zillow, removes a feature that showed the risks to homes from extreme weather

-Greenpeace exposes the plastics industry as “merchants of myth”

-Seattle biodigester reduces garbage while helping residents grow their own gardens

-The Great Pacific Garbage Patch gets bigger and gives marine life a new place to live

-Exxon petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid disclosing

how much pollution they produce.

-Iran’s capital must be moved because Tehran is out of water and subsiding

America's most critical urban hubs is sinking into the sea,

-The global ocean are simultaneously warming, becoming saltier or fresher, losing oxygen, and acidifying

-China’s effort to reduce its reliance on coal and increase its reliance on renewables is working.

-COP30 Global climate talks ended with a resolution that made NO direct mention of fossil fuels,

-New Jersey is likely to see between 2.2 and 3.8 feet of sea-level rise by 2100

-Iran is suffering from a severe drought that has depleted water sources, pushing authorities to begin cloud-seeding

-Philippines communities affected by consecutive Typhoons that caused extensive damage and tragic loss of life.

-The H5N1 virus, or bird flu virus has struck 66 poultry flocks Killing millions of birds

-New petrochemical plants in Texas will largely be built near communities of color

-Netherlands, small biogas domes that break down organic waste to produce biogas,