The first musical note to have sounded on Earth was an E natural.

Gorillas beat their chests not to bluff but to indicate how big they are.

Researchers find rat poison in the blood of 82 percent of 133 bald and golden eagles they tested.

Idaho Republicans push a bill to more than double the registration fees for electric vehicles, to $300.

A new Gallup poll finds that only one-third of Republicans acknowledge human responsibility for climate change. 

Methane and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surged in 2020, despite the pandemic. 

One out of three people in the United States has received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose. One out of five is fully vaccinated.  

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland creates a unit to pursue justice in cases of missing and murdered Native American and Alaska Native women.

Polar bears are increasingly driven to scavenge seabird eggs due to a lack of sea ice, which they use as a platform for hunting seals. 

The Plastic Bank, a for-profit social enterprise that pays people to turn in plastic trash, announces the collection of its billionth bottle.

A sugar maple in New Hampshire with a diameter of more than seven feet, the largest of its kind in the US, is cut down because of safety concerns. 

As part of a settlement with the Sierra Club, Vistra Energy will close its coal-fired power plant in Joppa, Illinois, in September 2022—three years earlier than previously scheduled. 

Scientists race to rescue rare black abalone buried by mudslides on California’s Big Sur coast.

Aquifers underneath Earth’s oceans contain 2,800 cubic kilometers of freshwater.

Equatorial oceans are now too hot for increasing numbers of marine species. 

A Dutchess County, New York, man is found to be keeping sharks in a pool in his basement.