Facial recognition technology is being used to identify individual bears over time.  

An accidentally punctured can of bear repellent at an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey sends two dozen workers to the hospital. 

Trump’s Interior Department releases its long-awaited conservation plan for the greater sage-grouse, reducing protected sage habitat for the rare bird from the 10.7 million acres proposed by the Obama administration to 1.7 million acres. 

Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are increasing at an accelerating pace, like a “speeding freight train.” Global emissions in 2018 are expected to rise by 2.7 percent, after a 1.6 percent increase in 2017. Much of the increase comes from transportation, as more people buy cars and drive them farther. In the United States, booming sales of SUVs dwarf reductions made by sales of electric vehicles. 

The Trump administration wants to end federal subsidies for electric cars and renewable energy.

The EPA tries to make it financially feasible to build new coal-fired power plants by axing a rule that required new plants to capture their carbon emissions. Even so, the agency predicts that no new coal plants will be built.

U.S. coal consumption drops to its lowest level since 1979. 

After violent demonstrations rock Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron defers for six months a new tax on gasoline and diesel fuel aimed at weaning French motorists off fossil fuels. 

Outdoor retailer Patagonia will donate the $10 million it saved as a result of the GOP’s “irresponsible” tax cut to environmental organizations fighting climate change.

The carbon emissions from California’s 2018 wildfires is equivalent to the amount produced by generating electricity for the state for a year. 

A prominent British climate sceptic argues that he has a free-speech right to mislead the public. 

U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft, a Republican fundraiser who is married to a billionaire coal-mining magnate, says that she believes “both sides of the science” of climate change. 

Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, pledges to be carbon neutral by 2050.

The Asian longhorned tick, an invasive species that can reproduce without mating, is spreading widely in the United States.  

A mysterious parasite is killing giant clams in the Mediterranean. 

Spitfire, the offspring of celebrity Yellowstone wolf 06, is killed by a hunter when it wanders outside the park boundaries. 

Mr. Murderbritches, “the world’s most badass bobcat kitten,” becomes famous after a video of him attacking the wildlife official trying to return him to the wild goes viral. 

A Norwegian photographer encounters a rare pure white reindeer calf.