Earth acquires a new moon the size of a car, called 2020 CD3. 

Wind surpasses hydro as the United States’ leading source of renewable energy.

Whales are twice as likely to strand themselves during solar storms, which may interfere with their internal navigational systems.

Aerial sharpshooters kill 36 mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park before Interior Secretary David Bernhardt orders a temporary halt to the effort to eradicate the invasive animals.

The Trump administration wants to fund its response to the COVID-19 crisis by taking $37 million from a program that provides heating assistance to poor people. 

Saudi Arabia suspends the hajj for nonresident Muslims for fear of COVID-19.

The Bureau of Land Management backs away from offering oil and gas leases on the Slickrock Trail, a popular mountain biking destination near Moab, Utah.

Reversing an Obama-era policy, the BLM will allow new coal-mining leases on public lands. 

Citing public demand for clean energy, Vancouver-based Teck Resources abandons its $15 billion, 260,000-barrel-a-day oil sands project in Alberta.

JPMorgan Chase says it will not finance oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and will not continue to finance coal mines and coal-fired power plants. 

Republican legislators in Oregon flee the state capitol in order to block action on a cap-and-trade plan to address climate change.

Republican legislators in Arizona pass a bill to prevent cities and towns from banning gas hookups for new homes.

After President Trump ridicules a plan to protect New York City from storm surges, the Army Corps of Engineers indefinitely postpones planning for an enormous sea wall.

A British court rejects plans for a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport because they do not take into account the government’s pledges in the Paris climate accord.

The world’s first in vitro cheetah cubs are born in Ohio’s Columbus Zoo. 

Donald Trump, Jr. gets a permit to hunt and kill a grizzly bear in Alaska east of Nome. 

Africa’s locust plague spreads to Congo. 

The CBS moderators of the last Democratic debate before Super Tuesday fail to ask a single question about climate change. 

Australia’s recent bushfires burned 20 percent of its forests. 

A study from the Yale School of Public Health finds an increased rate of sexually transmitted diseases in Texas counties with active fracking operations.

A swarm of 40,000 Africanized bees attack firefighters in Pasadena, California. 

A quarter of all tweets about climate are produced by bots.