GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Fires are the worst natural disaster the state of Washington has ever faced

-Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir by storage capacity, hit a record low

-Extreme drought and heat waves have dropped the Danube River in Budapest to a record low

-Mexico is battling a record sargassum seaweed  surge

-Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method using only water and oxygen to break down  plastics

-Four Melanesian countries plan a network of marine reserves across one of the world’s richest stretches of ocean