The survival of Pongo tapanuliensis, a new species of orangutan identified only last fall in Sumatra, is threatened by Sinohydro, a Chinese state-run company that is clearing the ape's forest for the construction of a dam. 

Wyoming Game and Fish proposed to increase the number of wolves that may be killed in the state’s managed hunt by a third, to 58. Hunters may now kill up to two wolves each.

A study funded by the Department of Defense says that climate change may render thousands of tropical islands uninhabitable by the middle of the century.

Suri Crowe, a reporter for an affiliate station of the Trump-friendly Sinclair Broadcast Group, says that she was terminated for failing to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that climate change is largely caused by humans.

In 2016, prior to heading EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s extensive security detail, Pasquale Perrotta worked for American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer and another Trump ally.

In the first two months of 2018, 98 percent of all new U.S. electric power generation capacity came from wind and solar. 

For three days the United Kingdom is powered by sources other than coal, a new record. The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire, which ordinarily burns coal, ran on biomass during this period.

The EPA declares that electricity derived from biomass (burning wood) to be carbon neutral. Many scientists aren’t so sure. 

Pruitt proposes a sweeping change for EPA rulemaking that favors industry research and would exempt many studies that show public health effects from pollution. 

NASA’s Operation IceBridge, flying over the frozen eastern Beaufort Sea, photographs strange craterlike holes in the ice. NASA has no idea what they are.

The reefs of the lower Florida Keys are being decimated by a mysterious bacterial disease. 

Canada considers changing the gas-powered Centennial Flame, which has burned on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for more than 50 years, to LED lights.