The Unicode Consortium withdraws its recently released lobster emoji in order to render it with the correct number of legs (10). 

Arthur Elkins, inspector general of the EPA, says that his office lacks the “people, time, and funds” necessary to investigate EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s penchant for first-class air travel. 

Instead of expanding as it normally does this time of year, the Bering Sea lost nearly a third of its sea ice in an eight-day period in February.

The new bridge that the Florida Department of Transportation is building to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is four feet higher than the current one. 

Paleontologists discover a rich trove of Triassic-period fossils in an area that Trump removed from the Bears Ears National Monument. The site is now in danger from mining and off-road vehicles. 

3M will pay Minnesota $850 million to settle a lawsuit over the chemical company’s decades-long dumping of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which have polluted the state’s groundwater. Toxic PFCs were used in 3M’s Scotchgard products. 

Alaska Republican senator Lisa Murkowski challenges others in the GOP to take climate change seriously. Murkowski also announces, with approval, that the Interior Department will start leasing oil drilling sites in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before Trump’s term expires.

While it awaits authorization to kill steelhead-eating sea lions at Willamette Falls, the Oregon Department of Fish and Game is trapping the pinnipeds and trucking them to the coast, where they are released. One sea lion swam the 230 miles back to the falls in less than four days.

Montana declines to schedule a grizzly bear hunting season in 2018.

The Church of England encourages its members to give up plastic for Lent. 

Claudia Ackley, a resident of the Southern California mountain town of Crestline, sues to get the state to recognize the species Sasquatch, a representative of which she believes she saw in a tree near Lake Arrowhead.