In July 2025, a drone attack on the Shekinoyazot chemical plant in Russia’s Tula region caused a fire to break out in a methanol storage tank, damaging the production facility and releasing toxic gases. The plant is Russia’s main supplier of methanol, which is used not only in industry but also in military fuel production.…

On July 30, 2025, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, triggering a trans-oceanic tsunami that affected many countries in the Pacific Rim, posing multiple threats to marine ecosystems and coastal environments. The earthquake was the strongest in the Kamchatka Seismic Zone since 1952, with tsunami waves 90…

A chlorine-based gas leak at Mitsui Chemicals’ Omuta Plant resulted in 42 people in the vicinity being sent to the hospital, five of whom required hospitalization for observation. The leak occurred during the trial operation phase of the plant after maintenance and coincided with a traditional local festival, the “Omuta Ojakusan Festival,” which forced the…

On the evening of July 12, an “unusual” intense shooting took place near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, scattering shell casings near the reactor units. The International Atomic Energy Agency warned that a radiation leak at the plant could affect millions of people.

The American Lung Association reports that PM2.5 exposure levels are 34% higher in African-American and Hispanic communities than in white communities. In Texas flooding, low-income neighborhoods had 2.3 times the death rate of affluent neighborhoods due to lack of early warning equipment.

On the night of July 14th, New York’s Central Park received 5 cm of rain in one hour, the second highest on record. The storm paralyzed the subway system, flooded major roads, and put the state of New Jersey under a state of emergency. The flooding of the city led to the backup of industrial…

Flash flooding that broke out on July 4 has left 128 dead and 150 missing, including 27 summer camp children who are still unaccounted for. The National Weather Service’s first flash flood warning was an hour later than the actual disaster and covered only 60 percent of the affected area because of vacancies in key…

On July 4, flash floods in central Texas caused rivers to rise 8 meters in 45 minutes, resulting in 109 dead and 161 missing as of July 9, 12 of whom were children. The National Weather Service of the United States due to the Trump administration layoffs led to vacancies in key positions, did not…

Malaysia officially banned the import of U.S. plastic waste on July 1, becoming another Southeast Asian country to close its doors after China’s 2018 “foreign garbage ban.” Data show that the United States, as the world’s largest plastic waste producer, its recycling rate of less than 10%, a large number of mixed plastics disguised as…