Severe hailstorms in the United States are becoming more frequent. 

The rainy season in California now starts one month later than it used to.

Norwegian energy giant Equinor very much regrets its US oil-shale investments after losing $11.5 billion on the deal.

After 40 years as a major timber operator, Southeast Alaska Native corporation Sealaska announces that it is getting out of the logging business. 

Scott Pruitt, Trump’s first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reveals that Trump considered abolishing the EPA entirely. 

The Senate gives bipartisan approval for Michael Regan to be the head of the EPA.

A Harvard study finds that fossil fuel emissions are responsible for nearly one out of every five global deaths.

A hacker tries to poison the water supply of the town of Oldsmar, Florida, by boosting levels of sodium hydroxide.

Electric vehicle drivers in California travel less than half as far as do gas-powered motorists.

A koala is rescued unharmed after trying to cross a freeway in Australia and causing a five-car pileup. It then poses adorably behind the wheel of a rescuer’s car.

A wall of water sweeps down a valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand after part of a glacier breaks off upstream in the Himalayas. As many as 150 are feared dead. 

A plume of dust from the Sahara blankets southern and central Europe, mixing with snow to turn ski slopes orange.  

Stock in a tiny oil and gas company called New Concept Energy, which produces 70 barrels of oil a day, rises 1,000 percent in a day due to Reddit-inspired day traders. 

A new wolf pack appears to be forming in Northern California.

The University of Maine will use the world’s largest 3D printer to manufacture wind turbine blades.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management reopens the door to Vineyard Wind, the first major offshore-wind-energy project proposed for US waters. 

The Empire State Building now relies entirely on wind power.