Icelandic authorities close Fjadrárgljúfur canyon to the public after it is overrun by fans following its appearance in a video by Justin Bieber. 

Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, says that if the Trump administration rolls back the state’s aggressive clean-car standards, California might ban the internal combustion engine.  

Xcel Energy will close its remaining coal-fired power plants in the Upper Midwest a decade early and add three gigawatts of solar capacity by 2030.  

The EPA plans to alter the way it calculates health risks from the fine particulate matter released from coal-fired power plants, to make the air pollution appear less deadly. 

The EPA stops funding research on environmental health threats to kids.

Researchers are raising Florida corals in tanks in hopes they can be used to breed new colonies after stony coral tissue loss disease stops ravaging the state’s reefs. 

The average clarity at California’s Lake Tahoe improved by over 10 feet in 2018. 

Sensors pinpoint the origin of large emissions of CFC11—a potent greenhouse gas that also destroys atmospheric ozone—in two industrial areas of China. 

Bedbugs, previously believed to have co-evolved with bats, are found to date from the time of the dinosaurs. 

In the Canadian Arctic, scientists discover fossilized fungi that are a billion years old. 

Botswana lifts its five-year-old ban on elephant hunting. 

The Department of Homeland Security warns energy companies that Chinese-made drones might spy on their operations. 

The EPA cancels the registrations of 12 bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

Starting next year, Italian fashion house Prada will no longer use animal fur in its products.  

Microscopic particles of plastic are found in 90 percent of rain samples taken from eight sites in Colorado, including one in Rocky Mountain National Park. 

The concrete dome on Runit Island covering 73,000 cubic meters of soil contaminated from decades of US nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands is cracking, and rising sea levels are threatening its integrity.  

Texas and other states are trying to criminalize protests against fossil-fuel infrastructure like pipelines. 

Fifty-eight dead gray whales have washed up along the Pacific Coast so far this year, many having starved to death.  

Ravens hatch in the Tower of London for the first time in 30 years. 

Twenty percent of US hens are cage-free, up from 5 percent six years ago.