A Florida brewery has developed a biodegradable six-pack ring that sea turtles can eat. 

A new study finds that last year’s Hurricane Maria killed 4,645 people in Puerto Rico—more than 70 times the official toll of 64. 

Mountain gorilla numbers are on the rise, from 480 in 2010 to 604 in June 2016. The mountain gorilla is the only wild great ape whose population is increasing.  

Fire danger is so great in northern New Mexico that the U.S. Forest Service closes Santa Fe National Forest entirely until further notice. 

The Canadian government will buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, which is intended to bring tar sands oil from Alberta to ports in British Columbia.

Two barges carrying coal down Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River break loose and sink.

The second “1,000-year flood” in two years hammers Ellicott City, Maryland.

Even though California’s five-year drought has been declared over, Governor Jerry Brown signs bills mandating permanent water conservation efforts, including a 55 gallon per person per day limit for indoor water use.  

Racism correlates with climate-denialism.  

Japan’s annual “research” whale hunt in the Southern Ocean results in 333 dead minke whales, 122 of whom are pregnant females. 

Aura Minerals has exhumed as many as 350 bodies from a graveyard in Honduras to get at the gold beneath them. 

Feral cats fed by cat fanciers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, are killing rare burrowing owls. 

Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids.