In this new feature, we look at all things climate, nature and the environment. For this first episode, our journalist Tracy Heindrichs looked at some of the positive and alarming news that flitted across news sources over June.

Between promising ocean carbon reducing technologies and record breaking temperatures, from Japan’s government receiving the green light to release the water used to cool down the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean to a potential revolution by Toyota for e-vehicles… here are five climate-related stories from June 2023.