After porn star Stormy Daniels reveals President Donald Trump’s intense fear of sharks, donations to shark welfare organizations surge.

Trump says he “didn’t really care” about opening up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling until a friend in the oil industry asked him to.

Draft budget documents show that the White House wants Congress to slash the Department of Energy’s renewable-energy and energy-efficiency programs by 72 percent. 

Doug Matheney, a top assistant to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, explains his role at a coal-industry conference in West Virginia: “I'm not a researcher. I'm not a scientist. I'm an advocate for the coal industry.” 

Orcas can imitate human speech.

The Trump administration cuts the monthly fees ranchers pay to graze a cow and calf on public land by nearly 25 percent, following an 11 percent reduction in 2017, to $1.87. Grazing the same animals on private land would cost $20 a month.  

Cooke Aquaculture recants its explanation for its August 2017 release of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon into Washington’s Puget Sound, which it blamed on high tides caused by the solar eclipse. An investigation by the state blamed the spill instead on the company’s negligence and said that Cooke may have understated the number of escaped invasive fish by 100,000. 

In a blow to the proposed Pebble Mine, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt says he will maintain Obama-era restrictions on gold and copper mining in the area, citing potential danger to southwest Alaska’s salmon fishery.

Harley-Davidson will market an electric motorcycle in 2019.

Naked mole rats do not age.

By January 30, London exceeds its annual limit for air pollution—which is an improvement upon past years.

2017 was the fourth consecutive year of “extreme” iceberg conditions in the North Atlantic, with twice as many icebergs in shipping lanes as in a normal year. 

Temperatures in Siberia fluctuated by 126ºF over a two-week period in January.

More than 1,000 rhinoceroses were poached in South Africa in 2017, 5 percent of the country’s rhino population. 

Americans’ increasing reliance on online shopping and entertainment is saving large amounts of energy—1,700 trillion BTUs in 2012, for instance, or 1.8 percent of the U.S. total. 

Cathy Stepp, the EPA’s new administrator for its Midwest region, once disguised herself with a false nose to help her daughter pass a driving test. 

France will shut all of its coal-fired power plants in the next three years.

Workers for New Orleans’s public works department clearing out catch basins on a five-block stretch of St. Charles Avenue recover 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads.