Wildfires are burning in western Greenland.

A dire draft climate report prepared by scientists from 13 federal agencies blames human causes with even more certainty than previous studies. Several participating scientists tell the New York Times that they fear the Trump administration will suppress the final report.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt refers to climate change as “this supposed threat to this country.”

The Brokpa people of the Himalayan nation of Ladakh have been vegan for more than 2,000 years, but crop failure due to climate change is pushing them to eat dairy, eggs, and meat.

Environmental groups sue the FDA for allowing stores and salons to sell hair-straightening treatments containing high levels of formaldehyde.

The Trump administration has collected 60 percent less in civil penalties from polluters than the past three administrations had by this point in their first year. 

Indiana Republicans have expanded early voting in GOP-dominated districts and restricted it in Democratic-majority districts. The Justice Department backs an effort in Ohio to purge infrequent voters from the rolls.

Officials in Oregon and Washington seek authority to kill sea lions that feast on winter run steelhead trout at Willamette Falls on the Willamette River and Bonneville Dam on the Columbia, claiming that they are driving the fish to extinction.   

Mexico permanently bans gillnet fishing in the northern Gulf of California to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest marine mammal. 

Some farmers in North Dakota, which is suffering from severe drought, are seeking to ban cloud seeding, claiming that it makes the drought worse. 

Zion Oil & Gas, the world’s first faith-based oil company, has spent $150 million of its investors’ money searching for oil in Israel, a country that produces almost no oil. 

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