Giant predatory worms from Asia are now established in France.

Australia builds the world’s longest cat-proof fence—27 miles long—around the Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in order to protect rare marsupials like the bilby, the burrowing bettong, and the rufous hare-wallaby. 

Worldwide, one-third of areas supposedly set aside for wildlife are under intense pressure from roads, farms, and cities. 

The Trump administration wants to allow “certain sport-hunting practices” on national preserves in Alaska, like luring bears with bait, using bright lights to hunt at night, shooting swimming caribou from motorboats, and killing bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens. 

Alaska is sending a dozen bison to Siberia in an effort to combat climate change by re-creating conditions similar to those in the Pleistocene. The project hopes to someday also include resurrected wooly mammoths. 

Russia unveils Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant.

The rate of premature births in California communities adjacent to coal- and oil-fired power plants dropped significantly after those plants closed, according to a study of more than 57,000 births. 

A West Virginia coal company argues in court that a bank that spared it from bankruptcy four times in the past should have done so a fifth time and not declared the company to be in default.  

Workers race to save the 10 wells at Hawaii’s Puna Geothermal Venture from encroaching lava from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano.  

Fish in Yellow Fork Creek in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, are killed when a chemical used to contain odors in portable toilets is released into a storm drain. 

The EPA bans reporters from CNN, the Associated Press, and others from a national summit meeting on toxic contaminants in drinking water. 

The 15-year-old Oregon teenager who started last year’s wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge may be assessed $37 million in penalties. 

An uncovered memo shows that last year the Trump administration debated whether to try to rebut climate studies produced by government scientists or simply ignore them.  

Following a campaign by state high school students, Utah’s state government officially acknowledges climate change and calls for cutting carbon emissions.  

NASA’s new administrator Jim Bridenstine, formerly a climate denier, now acknowledges its human causation. Mike Stoker, the new chief of the EPA’s Region 9, does not.   

Only 35 out of 235 commercial fish stocks in U.S. waters are now being overfished, a record low since records began in 2000.  

A mountain lion in Washington State kills a mountain biker.

China has developed a solar cell that can also generate power from raindrops.