A rare blue lobster shows up at a Red Lobster in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

More than 150,000 people in the US have died of COVID-19. 

The temperature in Baghdad hits 125°F, a record. 

Tahlequah, the Puget Sound orca who two years ago bore the body of her dead calf for 17 days over 1,000 miles, is pregnant again. 

Lithuania seeks to attract tourists with coal-flavored ice cream. 

Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, is now home to an alligator.  

The National Security Agency warns that Russia is launching cyber attacks on the US energy sector and grid system. 

The US Army Corps of Engineers clears the way for the enormous Pebble gold mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay, one of the world’s most productive wild salmon fisheries.  

The numbers of migratory freshwater fish have declined by 76 percent.  

Thanks to conservation efforts, the number of US fish stocks subject to overfishing drops to a new low.  

Shell supports banning new gasoline and diesel-powered cars in the UK by 2030.  

In California, Chevron embraces solar power—in order to pump oil more cheaply.  

The USDA warns residents of 27 states not to plant unsolicited packages of seeds sent to them from China. 

Populations of wild western bumblebees have declined dramatically over the past decade, some by up to 93 percent.  

An employee at Yosemite National Park tests positive for the coronavirus, after apparently being infected by a park visitor.  

After 350 years, the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County, California, gets 1,199 acres of its land back.