A volcano at Fagradalsfjall in southwestern Iceland attracts many visitors from nearby Reykjavik, some of whom take the opportunity to roast hot dogs on the fresh lava. 

The Danish Red Cross sponsors a bond that is the first to offer insurance against volcanic eruptions. 

The National Park Service is limiting access to the Washington, DC, Tidal Basin during peak cherry-blossom bloom because of the coronavirus pandemic. 

A research team in Spain is studying airborne microplastics by counting how many pieces become stuck on bees. 

A huge container ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking 12 percent of global shipping.

Norway is building a mile-long ship tunnel.

The UK is halfway to its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

China is building coal plants at a rate of three times the rest of the world combined.

Saudi Arabia wants the United States to defend its oil facilities. 

The American Petroleum Institute asks Congress to put a price on carbon.

Five wolves are found dead in northeastern Oregon. 

Montana governor Greg Gianforte traps and kills a wolf from Yellowstone National Park. 

The walrus that visited Ireland shows up in Wales.  

Florida bans non-native reptiles.  

The EPA vows a public accounting of political interference in its affairs during the Trump administration.  

For the first time, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission considers a methane gas pipeline’s contributions to climate change when evaluating it.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, in collaboration with the National Park Service and the Yurok Tribe, will try to establish a new population of condors in the Pacific Northwest, in Yurok Ancestral Territory and Redwood National Park.

Lightning strikes in the Arctic have tripled in the past decade.

Cerros Escalante, an Indigenous anti-dam activist in Honduras, is assassinated in front of his children.  

Natural features on Mars (Máaz) encountered by the Perseverance Rover are being cataloged in Navajo.