Swedish-Finnish steel producer Svenskt Stål promises carbon-free steel produced with renewable hydrogen by 2026. Steel-making is responsible for up to 10 percent of global CO2 emissions. 

Light pollution is overwhelming fireflies’ mating signals.

It may be possible for solar panels to generate electricity at night.

In 2019, California’s electrical grid produced a record amount of energy from solar and wind—on some sunny days, more than it could use.

Ryan Jackson, one of the highest-ranking political appointees in Trump’s EPA, moves over to the National Mining Association, the country’s largest advocate for coal. Before his departure, Jackson fired Mark Stoker, the head of the EPA's Region 9, for—according to Stoker—having been praised by Democratic politicians. 

A bill in the Indiana legislature would make it difficult to close coal-fired power plants. A Democratic representative offers an amendment to make it state policy to favor whale oil.

Japan plans to build as many as 22 coal-fired power plants in the next five years.

Influential CNBC financial analyst Jim Cramer compares oil stocks to tobacco, saying they’re in a “death knell phase.”

An emaciated sperm whale dies after being beached on the Florida coast a mile north of  President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Fifty endangered North Atlantic right whales—one-eighth of the remaining world population—gathered south of Nantucket.

A band of 300 feral rhesus macaque monkeys are roaming northeastern Florida. A quarter of them are infected with herpes.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proposes legislation that would allow mining and dam construction on previously protected Indigenous lands.

Brian Wilson organizes a boycott of a performance by the other Beach Boys at a convention for the Safari Club International, a hunting organization.

Corteva Agriscience (formerly part of Dow Chemical), the largest manufacturer of chlorpyrifos, will no longer manufacture the neurotoxic pesticide. After February 6, California forbids its sale.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

The average human body temperature has dropped to 97.9ºF and is declining by 0.05° every decade.