Ecuador is using seized cocaine to make concrete.

Eduardo Mendúa, a leader of A’i Cofan people in the Ecuadorean Amazon who had been protecting his home from oil extraction, is shot and killed by gunmen.

Lidar technology reveals 417 previously unknown Mayan cities and villages in a 650-square-mile area of Guatemalan rainforest interconnected by “the world’s first superhighway system.”

Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali vows that F1 race cars “will never go electric.”

Epic blizzards continue to slam California—including the mountains around Los Angeles—and the Pacific Northwest. Yosemite National Park is forced to close. Mt. Baldy in Southern California receives up to eight feet in a single storm.

For the first time since July 2020, a majority of California is no longer in a drought.

A Washington State cougar swims more than a kilometer from the Olympic Peninsula to Squaxin Island. Researchers believe that cougars are capable of swimming even greater distances, up to two kilometers, opening thousands of islands in the Salish Sea to their dispersal. 

Some fish can recognize themselves in a mirror or in photos, meeting the classic test of self-awareness.

Staff at the Natural Resources Defense Council seek union recognition. 

The Department of Energy’s proposed new energy-efficiency regulations for gas stoves would bar half the models currently being sold. 

Belgium and the Netherlands fear that Russian spy ships are covertly mapping wind farms and other critical infrastructure in the North Sea in preparation for possible sabotage. 

Mexican wolf numbers hit 241, the first time they have topped 200 since the wolves were reintroduced into the wild in 1998 and their seventh consecutive year of growth. 

Wildlife managers shoot and remove 19 feral cows from the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. 

South Africa sends a dozen cheetahs to India to join eight others donated last year by Namibia. India is seeking to reintroduce the cats to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh state after they died out 70 years ago.