Wildlife Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says that it will stop killing beavers in Oregon, the Beaver State. 

Two wolves are spotted in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest, the first time multiple wolves have been seen there since the 1940s.

In California, occasional heavy rainfalls that decrease the salinity of San Francisco Bay wipe out large numbers of invasive creatures but not the acclimatized natives. 

Nine of 12 members of the National Parks System Advisory Board resign, citing the Trump administration’s environmental policies and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s refusal to meet or consult with them. 

Simon Edelman, the Energy Department photographer who snapped a picture of Energy Secretary Rick Perry hugging coal executive Robert Murray, loses his job and applies for whistle-blower protection. 

A full Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea collides with a freighter, explodes, and sinks, killing all on board and leading to one of the largest oil spills in history.

A biological opinion written for the EPA concludes that three commonly used farm pesticides—chlorpyrifos, malathion, and diazinon—endanger native salmon and, by extension, the orcas that eat them.

The Vancouver Aquarium will no longer keep whales and dolphins in captivity.

Rat poison set out by unpermitted marijuana farms in California is killing northern spotted owls.

“Modest levels” of pollution in English rivers are found to lead to 80 percent mortality of mayfly eggs.

U.S. production of fossil fuels is expected to reach record levels in both 2018 and 2019—except for coal, which will continue to decline.

More rain in a warming Arctic results in fewer musk oxen. (It freezes on the ground and makes it harder for them to feed.)

Kids in the United States are twice as likely to die in traffic as children in other wealthy countries.