ICYMI: London Foxes, Fake Crabs, Deer Milk, & More

A weekly roundup for busy people

By Paul Rauber

September 28, 2018

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Illustration by Peter Arkle

London is home to up to 10,000 foxes. A beluga whale appears in the Thames.

A judge restores endangered-species protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area, halting planned hunts in Idaho and Wyoming. 

U.S. national parks are warming twice as fast as the rest of the nation.

President Emmanuel Macron says that France will no longer enter into trade deals with countries outside the Paris climate accord. 

A New Zealand company now offers dairy products made from deer milk.  

The number of car-moose collisions in Maine has declined dramatically. 

The owner of a seafood company in Newport News, Virginia, pleads guilty to selling hundreds of thousands of pounds of foreign crab meat labeled as “Atlantic blue crab.” 

The SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud in connection with an August tweet about taking the company private. 

Porsche abandons cars with diesel engines in favor of electric and hybrid technology.  

The EPA dismisses its head of Children's Health Protection, effectively closing the office. 

Two energy companies give up their efforts to take over the giant Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant, making its closure more likely. 

Hurricane Florence was the second-wettest recorded hurricane after last year’s Harvey, which dropped so much water on Texas that portions of the state sank as a result. 

New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir, the state’s largest, is at 3 percent capacity.