Mussel, oyster, and clam farts are contributing to climate change—but not as much as emissions from cows. 

Hywind, the world’s first floating wind farm, begins operation 16 miles off the coast of Scotland.

The State Department issues a permit for the final piece of Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper oil pipeline, a segment of which crosses the U.S.-Canada border into North Dakota.

Drue Pearce, Trump's acting administrator for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, co-owns a company that sells equipment to clean up oil pipeline spills.

Kathleen Hartnett White, Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council of Environmental Quality, is the author of a 2014 paper entitled Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case, in which she argues that carbon dioxide is "the gas of life." 

Due to a record amount of sea ice and a bad rainy season, Adelie penguins in Antarctica suffer a breeding disaster, with only two chicks surviving from a population of 40,000 birds. 

A district court in Minnesota allows climate activists who are facing felony charges for temporarily shutting down two crude oil pipelines last year to argue that they did so because of the necessity of confronting the climate crisis. 

The federal government spent a record-breaking $2.7 billion on firefighting in its last budget year, surpassing the previous record of $2.1 billion set just two years ago. Prior to 2000, firefighting costs never reached $1 billion. 

American alligators are now eating sharks.

The EPA dramatically revises its guidance on harm from radiation, saying that exposure equivalent to that of 5,000 chest x-rays “usually results in no harmful health effects.”

Secretary Ryan Zinke’s presence at the Interior Department is signaled by the hoisting of a special flag.

The National Rifle Association and the Safari Club are seeking to overturn a federal ban on the importation of elephant trophies from Africa.

Oregon wolf OR-33 is shot and killed in that state's Fremont-Winema National Forest.

Researchers at UC Davis find that the arrival of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft in major U.S. cities has led to more car traffic and less transit ridership.

The number of flying insects in German nature reserves has plunged by three-quarters over the past quarter century.