Fishers are born in the wild in Washington State’s North Cascades for the first time in decades. 

The world’s largest iceberg, as big as the island of Majorca, breaks off the coast of Antarctica. 

The International Energy Agency says that the world’s nations must immediately stop approving new coal plants and oil-and-gas fields and quickly phase out gasoline-powered cars if they want to avoid climate catastrophe.

Washington governor Jay Inslee vetoes a phase-out of gasoline-powered cars in the state starting in 2030, a bill he had previously supported.

US Climate Envoy John Kerry says that half the country’s necessary carbon reductions will come from technology that has yet to be invented.

Parts of Mexico City are sinking a foot and a half a year. The city could sink 65 feet in the next 150 years.

The CEOs of ExxonMobil and two other oil companies decline to testify before Representative Katie Porter’s congressional committee investigating “misuse of taxpayer dollars and corporate welfare in the oil and gas industry.” 

A security camera spots a mountain lion in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.

A Colorado man who faces charges relating to storming the US Capitol on January 6 is under house arrest after illegally killing a mountain lion with a handgun.  

A new study confirms that sharks use the earth’s magnetic field as an aid to navigation.

A team of scuba divers begins a six-month effort to clear submerged trash from California’s Lake Tahoe. 

President Joe Biden reappoints top climate scientist Michael Kuperberg, who was removed from his post in 2020 by former president Donald Trump. The move is part of an effort to repair “lapses of scientific integrity” under the Trump administration. 

Biden nixes Trump’s plans for a “National Garden of American Heroes” featuring statues of dozens of historical figures personally selected by Trump.

The General Services Administration offers four obsolete lighthouses—in Minnesota, Ohio, and Rhode Island—to nonprofit organizations for free. 

Darwin’s Arch, a large natural archway off Darwin Island in the Galápagos, collapses. 

A colony of about 40 monkeys in South Florida descends from escapees from a breeding facility for medical and military research in 1948. 

Scientists fire tardigrades out of a gun to determine whether they might survive a journey between planets inside a meteor. They do.