A California appeals court rejects environmentalists’ bid to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The effort to prevent the flooding of the valley, which lasted from 1901 to 1913, was Sierra Club founder John Muir’s last campaign.

An iceberg four miles long and half a mile high breaks off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier.

Russia is building at least 15 1,000-foot-long icebreakers, at a cost of $320 million each, to carve new Arctic shipping routes for its natural gas.

ExxonMobil leaves the conservative lobbying organization American Legislative Exchange Council, apparently because ALEC’s attempt to undermine the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases was too extreme for the oil giant.

Fracking makes you fat.

California hit its 2020 greenhouse-gas reduction target four years early, in 2016.

The Dáil votes to make Ireland the first country in the world to divest itself of fossil fuel assets.

Wyoming increases the number of wolves that can be killed in this fall’s hunt to 58, from 44 last year.

Rangers in Australia's Northern Territory capture an elusive 1,300-pound crocodile. 

Jahan Wilcox, the Republican political operative who served as Scott Pruitt’s spokesperson at the EPA (he once called a reporter “a piece of trash”) leaves the agency as well.

Eight of nine eggs being tended by a mallard duck at the Department of the Interior, dubbed #DOIduck, are eaten by rats.

The Office of Special Counsel investigates whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s “Make America Great Again” socks, pictured in a tweet from his official Twitter account, violated the Hatch Act prohibiting political activity by federal employees.

President Trump pardons Dwight and Steven Hammond, the Oregon ranchers whose five-year prison sentence for arson on public land sparked the January 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The homes of 250,000 people in coastal Southern California are at risk from sea level rise, which a new analysis says might double coastal-cliff erosion.

Starbucks will stop serving plastic drinking straws by 2020.

Tesla finally achieves its goal of making 5,000 Model 3 electric cars in one week.

Russian asbestos company Uralasbest puts Donald Trump’s face on its packaging. “Donald is on our side!” said a company Facebook post.