Captive parrots enjoy video chats with other parrots and are less lonely as a result. 

The city council of Culver City, California, votes to remove its protected bike lanes to make room for more cars.

GM will cease production of its all-electric Chevy Bolt, its bestselling electric vehicle, replacing it with bigger and more expensive EVs.

China’s BYD automaker debuts the Seagull, an electric car that will sell for less than $12,000—but only in China.

China is rapidly building new coal-fired power plants. South Africa, hit by blackouts, reconsiders closing its coal plants. West Virginia regulators seek to extend the life of the coal-fired Pleasants Power Station.

The EPA proposes stringent new rules that would virtually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from US coal-fired power plants by 2040.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm backs the Mountain Valley gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia, calling it “part of the clean energy transition.”

South Asia is suffering from extreme heat, and it is only April.

Rapid melting of ice in Antarctica will likely cause oceanic currents in the Southern Ocean to collapse within the next three decades.

Most of Yosemite Valley closes to the public due to forecast flooding as the winter’s epic snowfall starts to melt. Closures are expected into May and June. 

A steel footbridge in Kings Canyon National Park was badly damaged by either an avalanche or collapse due to heavy snow. The bridge is a key for those hiking the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails; it is unlikely to be repaired this year.

Less than a decade after the last dam on Washington State’s Elwha River came down, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe will resume its ceremonial and subsistence Coho salmon fishery this fall. 

Arizona rescinds water-drilling permits for a Saudi-owned alfalfa farm. The company, which does not pay for the water it uses, sends the alfalfa to Saudi Arabia to feed dairy cattle. 

A seven-year, $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International by Canadian logging company Resolute Forest Products is dismissed by the US District Court for Northern California. 

A 51-square-mile logjam on the Mackenzie River in the Canadian Arctic—the world’s largest— is calculated to store 3.1 million metric tons of carbon.

A powerful geomagnetic storm on the sun sparks magnificent displays of aurora borealis as far south as New Mexico and France. 

Shareholders at Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo vote down resolutions calling on the banks to phase out financial support for fossil fuel production.

The Supreme Court refuses to bar state and local governments from suing major oil companies for climate damages. 

COVID-19 remains a leading cause of death in the United States, killing about 250 people every day.