The Trump Administration is seeking to cut $2.6 billion from the EPA's budget, but is planning to fund 10 bodyguards to provide around-the-clock protection for administrator Scott Pruitt. 

One of four Trump administration appointees at agencies that deal with environmental regulation have ties to the fossil fuel industry. Half have no experience in the area in which they work. 

Climate scientists at the University of Alberta lose 180 ice cores collected since the mid-1970s when a malfunctioning freezer melts them. 

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers a second year of mass bleaching. Only the reef’s southern third remains relatively unscathed. 

After injuring a 14-year-old Idaho boy and killing his yellow Lab with a cyanide trap meant to kill coyotes, the USDA’s Wildlife Services program says that it will stop using the devices to kill wildlife in the state. 

Giant “guacamole-like” algae blooms in the Arabian Sea are linked to melting glaciers in the Himalayas. 

After what appears to be a record rainy season in the state, California governor Jerry Brown declares the drought to be over but maintains a ban on wasteful water practices. 

A California appeals court upholds the state’s “cap and trade” system of reducing carbon emissions, ruling that it is not a form of taxation. 

Poland removes restrictions on logging private land, leading to a “massacre” of trees across the country. Polish Mothers on Tree Stumps protest the clearance by posting pictures of themselves sitting on stumps, nursing their children. 

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