Chinese customs officials seize 13 tons of scales from the endangered pangolin, the remains of at least 20,000 creatures. International trade in pangolins, the world’s most poached animal, has been banned since January.

Analysis of the remains of purported Himalayan yetis show that they were, in fact, bears. 

Don Blankenship, the coal company executive who was convicted of conspiracy to violate federal mine-safety rules, says he will run for the Senate in West Virginia. Blankenship says that the United States should burn more coal in order to save the world from global cooling. 

Should the ongoing eruption of Mount Agung in Bali become more violent and follow the pattern of its past eruptions, it could have a real, if temporary, cooling effect.

As climate change causes glaciers to shrink and relieve pressure on volcanic regions, eruptions may become more frequent. 

Researchers from the University of Reading find that airborne molecules of fatty acid, such as those released by deep-frying fish and chips, can have a role in cooling the climate. Ten percent of the particulate matter in London’s air is composed of such molecules.

Alaska inks a $45 billion deal to ship natural gas from the North Slope to China. 

A Swedish power plant that once burned coal is now burning clothes discarded by clothing chain Hennes & Mauritz (H&M).

The EPA holds the sole public hearing on scrapping the Clean Power Plan—the nation’s strongest tool to combat climate change—in Charleston, West Virginia. On the same day, Wisconsin’s WEC Energy Group announces that it will close its coal-fired power plant in Pleasant Prairie, which it hopes to replace with solar power. 

Career EPA employees are using encrypted messaging apps to communicate with each other to avoid interference from Trump administration political appointees. 

Bronze Star LLC, a newly formed, two-person Florida company that won a $30 million contract from FEMA to provide emergency rain tarps to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, fails to deliver any. 

More than 100 reindeer are killed by freight trains in northern Norway.

In Detroit, the number of children under six with lead poisoning jumped by 28 percent in 2016. 

Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hoa is sentenced to seven years in prison for publicizing a 2016 incident in which a Taiwanese-owned company dumped industrial toxins into Vietnamese coastal waters, killing hundreds of tons of fish. 

Starting in January, California’s Muir Woods National Monument will require reservations year-round for all cars entering the popular park.

The BLM tells limousine driver Mike Hughes that he cannot launch his homemade, scrap-metal rocket from federal land in the Mojave Desert in an attempt to prove that the earth is flat.