A Chinese team of 30 removes more than nine tons of garbage left behind by climbers on Mt. Everest.  

The Himalayan Indian city of Shimla, which is in the midst of a severe drought, begs tourists to stay away.  

India will ban all single-use plastic products by 2022.

May 2018 in the contiguous United States is the warmest on record.

California generates more electricity from utility-scale solar power plants in May 2018 than from gas.

Climate change has slowed hurricanes and tropical storms by 10 percent since 1949, increasing the danger to humans from rainfall and storm surges. 

The D.C. District Court orders EPA administrator Scott Pruitt to turn over documentary evidence for his contention that carbon dioxide is not a major factor  in climate change.

Pruitt asks an aide to try to procure a used mattress from Trump International Hotel. The aide has now resigned. 

Pruitt asks another aide to arrange a meeting with the CEO of Chick-fil-A to discuss a possible franchise for Pruitt’s wife. 

Pruitt asks his security detail to pick up his dry cleaning and to drive him to Ritz-Carlton hotels in search of his favorite moisturizing lotion.  

Black bears in the mid-Atlantic region are going bald from mange, a skin disease usually associated with dogs.

Invoking national security, President Trump orders the Department of Energy to take “immediate steps” to stop coal-fired and nuclear power plants from closing. The potential cost to electricity consumers is estimated to be from $10.6 billion to $17 billion a year. 

In an attempt to prevent the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station from closing next year as planned, the Trump administration says it might order Arizona to buy power from the plant. 

Estonia makes public transportation free.

Commercial honeybee colonies worldwide—with the exception of those in Australia—are infested with the varroa mite, requiring chemical treatment that makes their beeswax unsuitable for cosmetic purposes. As a result, the price of Australian mustache wax is skyrocketing.

It is now illegal to manufacture or import wood products that include excessive amounts of the carcinogenic chemical formaldehyde. 

The Trump administration has stopped or sidelined more than 1,500 rulemakings, including ones governing mine safety, chemical contamination, and public health. Trump’s deregulatory pace is roughly equal to that of George W. Bush's. 

The 220-square-mile Sungai Putri rainforest on the island of Borneo, home to 1,200 endangered orangutans, is being logged, contrary to promises by the Indonesian government to protect it.  

Two days after two experienced climbers die in a fall from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell set a new record for climbing El Capitan’s Nose route, at 1:58:07.