This week’s environment coverage ranges from local to global: a 200-year-old cottonwood was cut to allow border-wall construction after a months-long tree-sit, communities in Nepal remain rebuilding weeks after deadly floods, Southern California faced an unusual late-season heatwave, and U.S. policy and courts are wrestling with fossil-fuel accountability as a longtime Interior lawyer resigned and the Supreme Court heard a Boulder climate-liability case. Christians are called to steward creation and seek justice and mercy for neighbors harmed by climate impacts, offering wise, peaceful advocacy as communities rebuild and courts determine responsibility.