Researchers name a new species of frog discovered in the Ecuadorian Andes Pristimantis ledzeppelin, Led Zeppelin’s rain frog.

Tasmanian devils introduced to Australia’s Maria Island as part of an effort to protect them from a deadly facial cancer have wiped out 3,000 breeding pairs of penguins. 

The amount of heat trapped by the earth’s atmosphere has doubled in the past 15 years.  

A Montana man is arrested for felony negligent arson for starting a fire that burned 46 square miles near Yellowstone National Park. In trying to repair the dirt bike he was riding on a trail closed to motor vehicles because of high fire danger, he spilled gasoline “all over,” then ignited it when checking his spark plug.  

A Tulare County, California, man steals 21 tons of pistachios.  

A laboratory analysis of a Subway tuna sandwich fails to identify any tuna DNA. 

Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy is running for governor of Idaho. 

Corcoran, California, has sunk 11.5 feet over the past 14 years as water for agriculture is pumped from the aquifer. 

The Interior Department transfers the National Bison Range in Montana to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

After the remains of hundreds of Native children are found on the grounds of Catholic-run boarding schools in Canada, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland orders an investigation of US Indian boarding schools.  

Texas energy companies are raising the temperature on smart thermostats, remotely and unilaterally, to reduce electricity use during a heat wave. 

There are 32,000 abandoned oil and gas wells—many of them leaking—within 30 miles of 162 national park sites.  

By 2026, Volvo plans to manufacture cars from fossil-fuel-free steel (made with hydrogen instead of coal).  

The Fish and Wildlife Service rescinds a Trump-era requirement that duck stamps “honor hunting.”  

By four months of age, ravens’ cognitive skills are as good as those of chimpanzees and orangutans.