The Japanese village of Takikawa is seeking to deter incursions by wild bears using robotic wolves. 

The Trump administration is intent on selling leases to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before January 20, 2021.

Phoenix hits 90°F on Monday, November 16, the latest day in the year that mark has ever been reached. Phoenix has also broken its record for the most days of triple-digit temperatures in a calendar year, at 144. 

Hurricane Iota devastates Central America. This was the latest that an Atlantic hurricane has ever grown to be a Category 5 and only the second Category 5 to occur in the month of November.

A deal is reached to remove four large dams on the Klamath River on the Oregon-California border. It will be the largest dam-removal project in US history and will reopen hundreds of miles of prime salmon habitat. 

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer orders Enbridge to shut down Line 5, the oil pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

San Francisco bans natural gas from new buildings.

The US death toll for COVID-19 passes a quarter million. 

North Dakota has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world. One out of every thousand residents has died of the preventable disease.

A lawsuit alleges that supervisors at a Tyson Foods pork plant in Iowa placed bets on how many workers would be infected by the coronavirus.

Hundreds—and perhaps more than a thousand—giant sequoia trees perished in September’s Castle Fire on the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada.

Jeff Bezos donates $791 million to 16 environmental groups, “just the beginning” of a $10 billion commitment to fight climate change. 

Suspected poachers kill northern Ontario’s rare white moose. The Flying Post First Nation has offered a reward to find the killer of the spirit animal. 

Platypuses glow when exposed to ultraviolet light.