Due to discharge from a wastewater treatment plant, water at the base of Niagara Falls turns black. 

Streetlights, by attracting bugs, are shown to interfere with nighttime pollination.

Authorities in New York crush nearly two tons of illegal ivory tusks, statues, and jewelry in Central Park. 

After being sued by 15 states and numerous public health and environmental organizations (including the Sierra Club), EPA administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reverses his attempt to delay new rules limiting atmospheric ozone, the main component of smog. 

Pruitt is also seeking to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which protects the drinking water for millions of Americans. The comment period on the repeal is now open. 

The Department of Homeland Security waives environmental and other laws in order to start construction of President Trump’s border wall.

Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, says that his next car will be electric. 

This year’s Dead Zone—an area in the Gulf of Mexico rendered hypoxic by fertilizer and animal waste washed down the Mississippi River—is the largest on record at 8,776 square miles, roughly the size of New Jersey.

Utilities in South Carolina walk away from two vastly over-budget nuclear power projects. Ratepayers may be on the hook for the $9 billion spent on the projects thus far.  

Operations at Southern California’s Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility resume, less than two years after the largest known leak of methane in the United States. 

Crop-damaging heat waves may be responsible for the suicides of 59,000 farmers in India over the past three decades. 

Heat and drought from climate change are diminishing the numbers of ants and termites in southern Africa, greatly reducing the number of aardvarks.

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