Experts are reporting an estimated 50,000 monarchs at overwintering sites in California.

Beginning in 2022, California is banning the sale, manufacture, and use of firefighting foam that contains per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

During a review meeting at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin, the USDA Forest Service and the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities discussed a public-private partnership named P3Nano examined projects in which they had co-invested in 2016 in an effort to fund cellulose nanomaterials research ($4 million total, $2 million from FS, $2 million from the partner).

This organism is capable of creating new, synthetic proteins which have never been used by a living organism.