On Midway Island, bloodthirsty vampire mice are attacking the world’s largest albatross colony. 

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who is the world’s oldest known wild bird, hatches a chick at age 67.

In Sweden, where it’s illegal to shoot brown bear mothers while they’re with their cubs, mothers and cubs are spending an extra year together.

Days after announcing the closure of three nuclear power plants—two in Ohio and another in Pennsylvania—FirstEnergy Corp. asks the Department of Energy to bail them out, along with the company's coal-fired plants. 

After three years of holding flat, global emissions of greenhouse gases increased by 1.4 percent in 2017. 

Air pollution leads to more bad calls by umpires. 

A great rift opens up in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

California bans the chemical traditionally used to chill Slurpees and frozen yogurt. (Alternatives are available.) 

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke backs the reintroduction of grizzly bears to the Northern Cascades in Washington State. 

Washington bans the farming of Atlantic salmon in state waters. 

African elephants from nearby countries are migrating to Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. Strict enforcement of anti-poaching laws makes the park relatively safe, and elephants are apparently communicating this information to other elephants. 

Lead levels in the blood of kids in Flint, Michigan, hit an all-time low in 2016.

Twenty-five thousand people sign a petition opposing it, but Yosemite National Park opens a Starbucks anyway. 

Construction begins on the 11-turbine wind farm in Scotland’s Aberdeen Bay, which Donald Trump had tried to block, contending it would ruin the view from his nearby Trump International Golf Links. 

Orange snow blankets Eastern Europe, the result of windborne sand from the Sahara mixing with snow in the atmosphere. 

In Washington, D.C., Mr. President and the First Lady lay an egg.