Louisiana environmental officials want people to stop dumping crawfish boil down storm drains.

Up to one-third of the wild-caught seafood sold in the United States is harvested illegally.  

Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo receive an experimental animal vaccine against the coronavirus. One of those vaccinated is Karen, who in 1994 was the first orangutan in the world to have open-heart surgery.

Two men ski down Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

The first Supreme Court decision led by new justice Amy Coney Barrett rules against the Sierra Club, saying that the US Fish and Wildlife Service does not need to disclose the draft biological opinions it uses when changing rules affecting endangered species. 

The Bureau of Land Management rescinds grazing permits for Dwight and Steven Hammond, the father and son Oregon ranchers whose previous strife with the BLM led to the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by right-wing militias.

New research finds that the Gulf Stream and other Atlantic Ocean currents are weakening as a result of an influx of newly melted freshwater. 

An iceberg larger than New York City breaks off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.  

The carbon footprint of wasted food in the US is greater than that of the airline industry.

Petaluma, California, bans the construction of new gas stations.

A new study proposes that extraterrestrial civilizations could be located by looking for evidence of smog on other planets.