The feces of Pallas’s cat, a small wild feline with a perpetual sneer, are found on Mt. Everest.

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite often spread through contact with cat feces, is found to cause abortion in bighorn sheep. 

ExxonMobil posts a record 2022 profit of $55.7 billion.

World demand for fossil fuel for electricity may already have peaked.

The EPA makes a Final Determination under the Clean Water Act to block the proposed Pebble Mine from fouling the salmon-rich waters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. 

Donald Trump (falsely!) blames wind turbines for airplane crashes.

A highly radioactive capsule of caesium-137 "the size of a Tic Tac" that was lost somewhere along a remote 800-mile road in Australia is located. 

Two emperor tamarin monkeys are stolen from the Dallas Zoo and found several days later in an abandoned house. A clouded leopard disappeared from the same zoo on January 13 and has not been located, and a lappet-faced vulture was found dead in its pen a week later. In Broussard, Louisiana, a dozen squirrel monkeys are stolen. 

Four residents of the Indonesian island of Pari sue Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim Ltd. for its role in flooding their low-lying home. 

Auckland, New Zealand, experiences its wettest day on record. As much rain falls in a single day as would normally fall in an entire rainy season, with more on the way.

Washington State’s Hinman Glacier is no more.

As industrial pollution increased in Europe over the 19th century, the impressionist paintings of J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet grew hazier.

In Half Moon Bay, California, a mountain lion that had attacked a five-year-old boy is driven off by the boy's mother. 

Mountain lions in California are killed by cars faster than they can breed.

Genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences, which has previously announced projects to “de-extinct” the wooly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger, now says it will bring back the dodo. 

Of the 580 photos recovered recently from a Boulder, Colorado, camera trap, 400 were selfies of the same bear.