After a speeding drunk driver in Bloomington, Indiana, veers into the bicycle lane and kills an Indiana University student on an electric scooter, the city council votes to restrict the hours when people may ride scooters.

The Olympic Council of Asia picks Saudi Arabia to be the site of the 2029 Asian Winter Games.

Parkour athletes in Paris put their skills to use turning off shop signs at night to fight light pollution (video).

Katmai National Park reveals that someone tried to hack the voting in Fat Bear Week in favor of bear 435, “Holly.” The ultimate winner was—once again—bear 747, a.k.a. “Bear Force One.”

The 2022 State of the Birds report shows that more than half of US bird species are in decline, 70 species have lost at least half their numbers in the past 50 years, and losses are occurring in every habitat except for wetlands.

President Joe Biden proclaims a new 53,800-acre Camp Hale–Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado, his first such designation.

California says it will reduce its water allotment from the Colorado River by 9 percent.

NASA confirms that it was able to change the trajectory of an asteroid by striking it with a spacecraft.

Six wolves from the Wedge pack in northeastern Washington have been poisoned this year.

After vaccines against COVID-19 became available, the National Bureau of Economic Research finds “substantially higher excess death rates for registered Republicans when compared to registered Democrats.” Another study, published in Nature, finds that “higher local viewership of Fox News Channel has been associated with lower local vaccination rates.”

Mountain lions in Southern California are preying on invasive feral donkeys.

Russian paleobotanists sprout a flowering plant, Silene stenophylla, from seeds ingested by an Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.