Fat ravens are stealing food from shoppers outside the Costco in Anchorage, Alaska.

Cherry blossoms peak in Kyoto, Japan, at the earliest date in more than 1,200 years.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls climate change an “existential threat” to the US financial system.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service says that grizzly bear populations are slowly increasing in and around Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks but still merit threatened status.

Young black bears in California’s Sierra Nevada are suffering from a mysterious, fatal brain inflammation, the telltale sign of which is fearlessness around humans. A different neurodegenerative disease killing bald eagles is linked to a cyanobacteria growing on an invasive freshwater plant called hydrilla. 

Exotic invasive plants and animals have cost the world economy $1.28 trillion since 1970.

Despite the pandemic, the destruction of tropical rainforests increased in 2020 by 12 percent over 2019. 

Bats likely gave humans COVID-19. Humans are unlikely to give it back to bats.

A suitcase filled with 185 baby Galápagos tortoises wrapped in plastic is seized at the islands’ airport en route to the mainland.

A third of the 13,000 cold-stunned sea turtles rescued during the February freeze in Texas survived and are returned to the wild. 

A new species of sea star is named after SpongeBob SquarePants’s friend Patrick Star.

Traces of pesticides are found in 90 percent of US streams. 

High tides from a full moon help to refloat the giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal.