Fish from Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, which caught fire in 1969, are now safe to eat.

Fish from the sea surrounding Japan’s Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, which suffered a partial meltdown in 2011, are no longer too radioactive to eat. 

An anaconda purported to be 50 feet long is filmed in the Xingu River in Brazil. 

Heavy rain from a “bomb cyclone” melts snow and causes record flooding in many parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota, including Offutt Air Force Base, home of the US Strategic Command. Financial losses in Nebraska alone total more than $1.3 billion.  

A cyclone in Mozambique triggers floods and broken dams, creating a huge “inland ocean” and destroying 90 percent of Beira, the country’s fourth-largest city. Tens of thousands of people are stranded, and more than 500 die. 

EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler says that "most of the threats from climate change are "50 to 75 years out.”

A federal judge rules against an oil and gas lease sale of 300,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming because the Interior Department “did not sufficiently consider climate change.” 

The Anglo American mining company is helping to power its Los Bronces copper mine with a “solar island” of floating PV panels on the mine’s tailings pond.

After a sick Cuvier's beaked whale dies off the Philippines, a necropsy reveals 88 pounds of plastic trash in its stomach. 

A man tries to smuggle Moroccan tortoises into Berlin by disguising them as pastries.

Seven western states agree to use less water from the Colorado River in order to forestall the Bureau of Reclamation from setting mandatory limits. 

For the first time since December 2011, California is drought free.

A jury in federal court finds that Monsanto’s widely used weedkiller, Roundup, was a “substantial factor” in a groundskeeper’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A mother’s prenatal exposure to pesticides, including Roundup, is linked to a “modest increase” in autism for her child. 

Florida citrus growers plan to counter a devastating bacterial disease known as huanglongbing by repeatedly drenching their crops with the antibiotics oxytetracycline and streptomycin. No studies were done on whether such a move might spur bacterial resistance to the widely used antibiotics. 

For the third year in a row, life expectancy in the United States has dropped. 

Roseburg Forest Products, the Oregon-based manufacturer of plywood and particleboard products, is under investigation for using wood illegally logged in African rainforests.

Overabundant squirrels are sabotaging New England’s maple-sugar farms by chewing on tubes and other equipment. 

More than a million students around the world skip school on March 15 to protest their governments’ lack of action on climate change. 

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired the Youth Climate Strike, is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.