Albatross outfitted with radar detectors are tracking down pirate fishing boats in the Indian Ocean.

Florida approves the use of drones to track invasive Burmese pythons. 

On January 21, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide recorded at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory is 415.79 parts per million, the highest-ever daily average noted there.

Warm water has been detected underneath Antarctica’s huge Thwaites Glacier, meaning that it is now unstable and capable of breaking off in very large pieces.

Some climate scientists say that the “worst case” scenario of a 5ºC temperature rise by the end of the century is increasingly unlikely. (The next-to-the-worst-case scenario is still pretty bad.)

President Trump signs on to a global initiative to plant a trillion trees.

A section of Trump's border wall with Mexico falls over in a 37 mph wind. The wall is also vulnerable to flash floods and will require large storm drains. 

The BLM plans to lease the land around Moab’s world-famous Slickrock mountain bike trail for oil and gas development. 

The BLM trolls Twitter: “Pack your petroleum-based gear for your next #BLMAdventure on public lands. #DYK more than 6,000 products, including insect repellent, fishing rods, canoes, and tents, are by-products of crude oil? Learn how minerals improve everyone's quality of life on #Mineral Monday.”

Lobbying by BP America helped convince the Trump administration to try to gut the National Environmental Policy Act. 

Despite his denials to Congress, Daniel Jorjani, the top lawyer at the Interior Department, continued to have contact with operatives for his former employers at the Koch network after he went to work for the Interior.

The large male orca known as L41, or “Mega,” who fathered at least 20 young among the Southern Resident population in the Pacific Northwest, is missing and presumed dead.

California’s Democratic-controlled legislature kills a bill to allow high-density housing near public transit lines.

Market Street, San Francisco’s main drag, goes car-free.

France taxes SUVs.

Kenya is devastated by a plague of locusts.

Eleven people are charged with felony recycling fraud for redeeming cans and bottles in California that were brought in from Arizona and Nevada, which do not have bottle bills. The scheme allegedly cost California’s recycling fund more than $2 million. 

Homero Gómez González, a Mexican activist devoted to preserving monarch butterflies, is found dead in a rainwater tank in Michoacán. 

Kellogg says it will phase out the use of glyphosate on its cereals by 2025. 

The BLM is ready to start firing workers who refuse relocation from Washington, DC, to Grand Junction, Colorado. 

Rodney Strong Vineyard in California’s Sonoma County spills up to 96,000 gallons of cabernet sauvignon into a tributary of the Russian River. 

Nestlé wants permission to take more than a million gallons of water a day from Florida’s Ginnie Springs, for which it will pay a one-time fee of $115.