Three men are banned from Yellowstone National Park after they attempt to cook two chickens in a geyser. 

Voter fraud mars New Zealand’s 15th annual Bird of the Year competition when more than 1,500 fraudulent votes are cast for the kiwi pukupuku, the little spotted kiwi.

Trump replaces Michael Kuperberg, the scientist in charge of the National Climate Assessment, with David Legates, a climate denier who has argued that carbon dioxide is “plant food and not a pollutant.”

US pot growers use more electricity than EVs.

Florida’s Gulf Power shuts down its last coal-fired power plant ahead of schedule as a result of damage it suffered from Hurricane Sally. 

Subtropical storm Theta becomes the record 29th named storm in this hurricane season. A record 12 named storms made landfall in the US.

Starting this Veterans Day, US veterans and Gold Star families have free lifetime access to all national parks, wildlife refuges, and other federal public lands.

Voters on November 3 approved nearly $3.7 billion for parks, public lands, and climate resilience. 

Emily Harrington free climbs the Golden Gate route on Yosemite’s El Capitan in under 24 hours, the first woman to do so. 

A time capsule set in the ice at the North Pole by the crew of a Russian icebreaker in 2018 is discovered by two surfers on a beach at Gweedore, Co. Donegal, in Ireland.

California forbids insurers from dropping existing fire policies in wildfire areas for the next year.

More than 144,000 cases of coronavirus are reported in the US on November 11 and November 12; only last week did the daily total pass 100,000. More than 242,000 people have died. 

A passenger on the first Caribbean cruise ship to set sail since the coronavirus pandemic tests positive for the coronavirus.

Marty, the black Maine coon cat who was the mascot at the weather station at the Mount Washington Observatory (“home of the world’s worst weather”) for a dozen years, has died.