According to Axios, on several occasions President Trump has suggested using nuclear bombs to prevent hurricanes from reaching the United States. 

According to the Washington Post, Trump has offered to pardon government officials who break environmental laws in order to construct his border wall.

Wildfires continue to rage in Alaska, Africa, the Amazon, Siberia, and Indonesia.

At the meeting of the G7 industrialized nations in Biarritz, France, Trump skips the session on climate change and the fires in the Amazon region.

The G7 pledges $20 million toward fighting the Amazon fires, but Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro says that he will reject the money unless French president Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults.” (Macron had called Bolsonaro “extraordinarily rude” for mocking the appearance of Macron’s wife, Brigitte.)

The investment firm Blackstone, a major backer of both Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, owns two Brazilian companies that are major beneficiaries of deforestation in the Amazon. 

Billionaire industrialist David Koch dies. Together with his brother Charles, he was the preeminent funder of a decades-long effort to cast doubt on the science of climate change.

By a margin of 62 to 38 percent, voters in Phoenix, Arizona, reject a ballot measure backed by the Koch network that would have forbidden any future light-rail construction.

Since 2014, heat-related deaths in Arizona have more than tripled.

For the first time, microplastics are found in California’s Lake Tahoe. 

In an Italian laboratory, seven eggs from the last two female northern white rhinos are inseminated with frozen sperm from two now-dead males. The success of the experiment will determine whether the species goes extinct.

The EPA seeks to roll back Obama-era rules limiting emissions of methane—an extremely potent greenhouse gas—even more than the oil and gas industry wants.

Officials in Nepal ban single-use plastic items on Mt. Everest. 

William Perry Pendley says that his previous support for selling off public lands is “irrelevant” to his new position as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, where he oversees 245 million acres of public lands.

The BLM opens the door to coal mining, oil and gas drilling, and increased grazing on land it stripped from Utah’s Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. 

Because of its hybrid vigor, Salsola ryanii—a “nasty species” of tumbleweed more than six feet across—is likely to replace other varieties of US tumbleweeds.

Trump instructs Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to exempt 9.5 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions under the Clinton-era “roadless rule.” 

A crash in the population of elk in the vicinity of Vail, Colorado, appears to be related to an upsurge in the number of hikers and mountain bikers. 

Cheeseburger-eating urban crows have higher cholesterol levels than their rural cousins.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York City after sailing across the Atlantic to attend the UN Climate Change Summit.