Soaring temperatures in Vienna, Austria, lead transit authorities to pass out deodorant to passengers on the city’s subway. 

The temperature in Japan hits 106°F, a new national record. 

Yosemite Valley closes due to the Ferguson fire on the park’s western border, which made air quality in the valley worse than that of Beijing. Large portions of Redding, California (population 88,000), evacuated due to the uncontrolled Carr fire. Across the nation, at least 88 large fires are raging.

An assistant chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is suspended for a month for having his employees build a tiki bar behind his house. 

Despite earlier assurances from acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler that he didn’t “think it was appropriate” to meet with clients on whose behalf he had lobbied, he has done so on at least three occasions. Wheeler’s meetings also appear to violate the ethics pledge he took when taking office. 

The large toe pads that Caribbean lizards have evolved enable them to hang on to branches during hurricane winds of up to 102 miles per hour.  

The Bureau of Land Management defers offering 31 oil and gas parcels within 10 miles of Carlsbad Caverns National Park but will lease 98,000 acres near Chaco Canyon, some portions of which are within 10 miles of the park.

The BLM will no longer require oil and gas companies, mine operators, and other industries to pay compensation for the damage their activities do to public lands.  

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke meets with Restore Hetch Hetchy, the environmental group dedicated to reviving the flooded valley in Yosemite National Park.

Worldwide, at least 207 environmental activists were murdered in 2017, a record number. 

Two-thirds of Republicans believe that climate change is caused by humans and that greenhouse gases should be reduced but don’t speak out because they assume their GOP peers are climate skeptics.  

The widely cited statistic that Americans use 500 million straws a day turns out to be based on research by a nine-year-old boy. 

The Italian Space Agency finds a large body of liquid water buried beneath the south polar ice of Mars.  

The Flemish wildlife agency blocks an application for a nude beach for fear the “subsidiary activities” of visitors might disturb the crested lark, Galerida cristata. 

Climate change could wipe out the famed cedars of Lebanon by the end of the century. 

Non-hazardous traces of cesium-137 from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster show up in California wine.