New research reveals that great white sharks fear only one creature: the orca. 

Chinese customs authorities seize 7.5 tons of ivory—2,700 tusks.

Xiangxiang, the last known female Yangtze giant turtle, dies after a failed attempt at artificial insemination.

Thawing permafrost throughout the Arctic is releasing 12 times as much of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide as previously thought.  

Authorities in the Yukon government decide that artificially refreezing the thawing permafrost that’s undermining a school in Ross River would be too expensive.   

Danny Faure, the president of the low-lying Seychelles islands, gives a speech advocating ocean health and climate action from 400 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York backs out of an event to honor Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who favors intensive agricultural and industrial development of the Amazon rainforest. 

Days after former industry lobbyist David Bernhardt is confirmed by the Senate as interior secretary, the agency’s Office of Inspector General opens an investigation into conflict of interest and ethics complaints against him. 

Former interior secretary Ryan Zinke joins the board of a gold-mining company with claims in Nevada and Wyoming.  

Chinese researchers insert a human gene important to brain development into monkey embryos. Those that survive have improved short-term memory and brains that develop over a longer period of time. 

Researchers at Yale restore “a surprising amount of cellular function” to the brains of dead pigs.

Iceland will develop a new deepwater port on its northern tip to facilitate shipping in increasingly ice-free Arctic waters and to export commodities like hydrogen.  

In 2018, oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin flared more than enough gas to power every house in Texas. 

Swedes have new words about the high carbon cost of air travel: flygskam (“flying shame”) and smygflyga (“to fly in secret”).