A rare all-white giant panda is spotted in Sichuan, China. 

The Sierra Club and ACLU win a temporary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from constructing a border wall by reallocating funds from other departments.

The Interior Department agrees to a one-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. 

Flamingo No. 492, which escaped from a Kansas zoo in 2005 during a windstorm, is spotted on the Gulf Coast of Texas.  

A number of countries are considering listing the woolly mammoth as an endangered species in order to combat trafficking of elephant ivory.

The 12-month period ending April 30, 2019, was the wettest such period in the continental United States in recorded history. Southeast Alaska, however, is in extreme drought for the first time.  

The Trump administration ends a US Forest Service program that trains disadvantaged youths to fight wildfires, laying off 1,100 employees of the Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers.  

Malaysia joins China and the Philippines in refusing plastic waste from the United States and other developed countries. 

The coastal village of Fairbourne in Wales may be the first community in the United Kingdom to be abandoned due to rising seas. 

A new study finds that global sea levels could rise by as much as six feet by 2100, twice as high as previously thought.

The Trump administration orders scientific assessments from the US Geological Survey to end their projections in 2040 rather than the end of the century, as they have previously done. 

Cape Cod debates building a sonic “invisible fence” to drive away seals—and, by extension, great white sharks—from popular beaches. 

The Department of Energy approves expanded exports of liquefied natural gas from Texas—what Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg calls “molecules of US freedom.” 

The EPA establishes a panel to challenge mainstream climate science headed by Princeton physicist William Happer, who says that “the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler.” 

Washington State legalizes human composting.