On August 13, the 2025 Green and Low Carbon Innovation Conference, organized by the China International Science and Technology Exchange Center (CISTEC), opened in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. The conference released the “Building a Green Future” initiative, calling on the global scientific and technological community to strengthen collaboration on green technologies and promote mutual recognition of…

As of August 13, heat alerts continued to be issued in the southwestern United States, the Gulf Coast and Florida, with temperatures reaching 53.3 degrees Celsius in California’s Death Valley and a record 17 consecutive days of over 43 degrees Celsius in Phoenix, Arizona.

On August 10, Slovakia’s Ministry of the Environment accused a chemical plant in Hungary’s Pest region of discharging mercury-containing wastewater into the Danube River, killing fish in a cross-border stretch of the river. The environmental authorities of the two countries are jointly investigating, but the lack of real-time monitoring data has led to an impasse…

According to the report, as of August 10, China has established forest sustainable management cooperation mechanisms with 32 countries, and promoted the “forest, grass and pasture compound management” model in Africa and Latin America. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) commented that China’s experience “provides a technical paradigm for forest restoration…

On August 7, a wildfire broke out in southern California, quickly expanding to 21.7 square kilometers and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Not only did the fires cause a severe deterioration in air quality, but the smoke from the fires caused mysterious yellow clouds to appear in the Pacific Ocean. Harmful substances in…

In the summer of 2025, Norway, Finland, Sweden and other Arctic Circle countries suffered persistent high temperatures, the Norwegian Arctic Circle for 13 consecutive days of temperatures exceeding 30 ℃, the Finnish Arctic region for three consecutive weeks exceeded 25 ℃, breaking the longest heat wave record since 1961. High temperatures led to the paralysis…

As of August 4, 740 wildfires were still burning in Canada, covering more than 22,000 square kilometers, with smoke covering large areas of the eastern U.S. and the New York City Air Quality Index (AQI) exceeding the “hazardous” level for the third consecutive day. The fires from the Arctic Circle to southern Ontario have led…

Between May and July 2025, Europe suffered the worst heat disaster in 150 years, with more than 2,300 people killed by extreme heat across Europe, and 1,180 killed in Spain alone, a ten-fold increase in the death rate year-on-year. The EU report shows that Europe is warming twice as fast as the world, extreme heat…

In July 2025, a tanker truck rollover on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA, spilled some 10,590 liters of gasoline into Indian Creek, killing at least 2,130 fish, including thousands of salmon fry. The spill rippled through newly restored salmon habitat (a tributary of the Elwha River), which the governor called a “heartbreaking” ecological…

In the first half of 2025, Saharan dust was repeatedly transported long distances through the atmospheric circulation, affecting Central European countries such as Austria and Italy, leading to significant increases in PM10 concentrations. Meanwhile, the dust cloud reached the Caribbean Sea in April, and scientists warn that such events may become more frequent as the…