Algae blooms turn creeks and rivers in the Annapolis, Maryland, area mahogany and waves in San Diego, California, bioluminescent blue. 

A suit by the Sierra Club yields 24,000 pages of EPA documents, which reveal the following: the agency classifies media outlets as “friendly” and “unfriendly”; administrator Scott Pruitt seeks to avoid unscripted questions at public appearances; most appearances are only publicized after the fact (if then); he sought a political favor from the head of a climate-denier group; and his favorite D.C. restaurant is Le Diplomate. 

Entergy New Orleans hires actors to participate in a public meeting on its plan to build a gas-fired power plant near residential areas on land that is rapidly sinking.

Another heat wave hits the North Pole, with temperatures up to 35 degrees warmer than usual. Arctic sea ice nears its record low.  

A whale shark named Anne logs a migration of more than 20,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, a record. 

Unusually large herds of “snoring, farting, sneezing” bachelor walruses are hauling out on Alaska beaches.  

Later this century, climate change will make rivers in the Pacific Northwest too hot for salmon and trout. 

Starting in 2020, California will require almost all new homes to have solar panels. 

Suniva, the Georgia-based solar-panel manufacturer that convinced Donald Trump to put tariffs on foreign solar panels, goes bankrupt without a plan for reorganization. 

Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano destroys 36 homes. An explosive eruption appears to be imminent.  

Pollution turns the Taj Mahal brown and green. 

Global tourism accounts for 8 percent of world carbon emissions. 

Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of Volkswagen, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act in connection with his company’s rigging of diesel vehicles to mislead pollution-testing devices. 

Billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk wants to start a candy company.