Researchers in Florida rediscover the rare metallic-blue calamintha bee. 

COVID-19 deaths in the United States approach 100,000, more than twice the number of deaths in any other country. 

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, in early April global CO2 emissions decreased by 17 percent over 2019. 

President Trump orders federal agencies, including the EPA, to search for more regulations to suspend or kill in the name of economic revival.  

A highly contagious, lethal virus is killing jackrabbits and other wild rabbits in the West in large numbers. It is not related to the coronavirus and does not infect humans.  

The BLM is testing a new long-term fertility vaccine to control the West's population of wild horses, which at present doubles every four years. 

In the earliest voyage of its kind ever, a Russian LNG tanker departs the northern Siberian port of Sabetta bound for Jingtang, China. Usually such voyages can't begin until late June due to heavy ice. 

Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette compares the growing number of banks refusing to lend money to oil companies for Arctic drilling ventures to redlining, the practice of refusing loans to people of color.  

Nearly two-thirds of meetings held between US Department of Interior officials and people from the private sector from January 2017 to May 2019 were with officials or lobbyists for fossil fuel corporations.  

Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who resigned at the end of 2017 under multiple ethics investigations, blames his downfall on the department's inspector general, whom, he claims without evidence, was working in conjunction with Democrats. 

Oil and gas drillers in Pennsylvania release 17 times the amount of methane that they report to the state. 

Due to a lack of traffic and industrial activity, Mt. Everest is visible from Kathmandu for the first time in living memory. 

Two dam failures on the Tittabawassee River in Michigan send floodwaters toward a Dow Chemical superfund site and force the evacuation of 10,000 people. 

Johnson & Johnson discontinues its talc-based baby powder, which has been dogged by charges that it caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. 

Spanish wind-turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is building a 14-megawatt, 728-foot-tall turbine for offshore use. It will be two meters taller than a model by General Electric, previously the world's largest. 

Wild white storks hatch in the UK for the first time in centuries.  

In Maine, a loon protecting its chick kills a bald eagle by stabbing it through the heart with its beak.