For the fourth time, Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week contest is won by 480 Otis. 

An Illinois woman is sentenced to four days in jail for failing to make way for a grizzly bear and her three cubs in Yellowstone National Park. 

A female honey buzzard with a GPS flies from South Africa to Finland in 42 days.

The Interior Department will offer an additional seven offshore areas for lease for wind farms, including tracts in the Gulf of Maine, the Gulf of Mexico, and off the California and Oregon coasts. 

New York okays the use of mass timber (a.k.a. engineered wood) for the construction of buildings as large as six or seven stories. 

General Motors gets its Korean battery supplier, LG Electronics, to assume nearly full financial responsibility for the manufacturing defect that required a $2 billion recall of all GM’s 143,000 Bolts because of increased fire risk.  

Short on electricity, China abandons its climate pledges and rushes to mine more coal and reopen shuttered coal-fired power plants.  

California outlaws gas-powered leaf blowers and lawnmowers, the first state to do so.

Prolonged drought is causing the water level of Lake Tahoe to sink beneath the rim of the Tahoe Basin, a point at which it would no longer drain into the Truckee River. Utah’s Great Salt Lake is also shrinking, threatening the snowpack in the Wasatch Mountains. 

Google and YouTube ban ads that promote climate disinformation. 

Russia’s population falls for 12 months in a row, a decline of nearly a million people. 

A 2.8-pound meteorite crashes through the roof and into a British Columbia woman’s bed.