President Donald Trump keeps eight goats at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club so he can call it a farm and pay taxes of $6 an acre instead of $462.

Workers at a Shell petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania have to choose between attending a Trump speech there or not being paid.

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate. Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, suggests without proof that the fires are being set by non-governmental organizations.

Insurance companies stop offering fire insurance to 340,000 Californians in fire-prone areas.

Washington governor Jay Inslee, who had focused his presidential campaign on halting climate change, drops out of the race.

The Democratic National Committee votes not to host a presidential debate focusing on climate. 

Arizona regulators ban state utilities from disconnecting power to delinquent ratepayers following the death of an elderly woman on a 107ºF day after her power is shut off.

Alaska’s rivers and streams are so hot this summer that they are killing large numbers of salmon. Anchorage is in extreme drought.

With California’s drought over, king salmon rebound to near-historic numbers. 

A large new study finds a correlation between mothers’ high exposure to fluoride during pregnancy and lower IQ scores for their children, especially boys.

The World Health Organization is set to declare Africa free of polio.

In Britain, electric vehicle charging stations now outnumber petrol stations.

The Danish island of Ærø is now connected to the rest of Denmark by the world’s largest electric ferry, capable of carrying 30 vehicles and 200 passengers.

Stampeding bison in Yellowstone National Park damage a visiting family’s rental car. (“I can’t believe we didn’t take the insurance,” says one occupant.)

An eight-month-old dugong that became a media star in Thailand dies from the plastic waste it had ingested.

Iceland unveils a memorial to its Okjökull glacier, which has melted.

Lake Michigan is 6.2 feet higher than it was six years ago. 

Endangered Florida panthers are suffering from a mysterious neurological disorder that inhibits their ability to walk. 

In order to protect cattle grazing on public land in Washington’s Old Profanity Territory, agents of the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife shoot four of five wolves living there. A judge bars the agency from killing the last wolf. 

The strain of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that’s killing sea otters in Southern California is traced to a wild bobcat and feral domestic cats. 

Eight environmental and animal rights organizations—including the Sierra Club—sue to block the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the Endangered Species Act. 

A whistleblower reveals that a July 2015 spill of natural gas liquids or condensate in North Dakota, reported at 10 gallons, was actually over 11 million gallons, more than the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

A Georgia man who trapped hundreds of turtles from Lake Jackson and shipped them to China, where they are prized as pets, is arrested. 

A New York couple’s luxury vacation home in West Palm Beach, Florida, is taken over by dozens of vomiting and defecating black vultures.