GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Forecast models give El Niño a 69% chance of becoming the strongest on record since 1950

-South Floridians continue to fend off the near-record heat wave enveloping the region

-Stifling heat in Europe in June was unusually deadly, producing a historic spike in deaths

-Seventy percent of the world’s major aquifers are in long-term decline

-A border wall appeared poised to be built through Big Bend National Park

-The administration advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging

-Wildlife officials and the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida have launched a coastal corridor to connect and strengthen marine habitats

-The Cherokee Nation is the first U.S. tribe to deposit traditional heirloom seeds in the Norway Svalbard Global Seed Vault.