People who don't wear masks or practice social distancing to protect themselves from COVID-19 are also less likely to believe in climate change. 

US deaths from COVID-19 surpass 60,000, more than all US casualties in Vietnam. More than 1 million Americans have been infected. Worldwide deaths approach a quarter million. 

The National Institutes of Health ends funding for the EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization that researches emergent coronaviruses in China. 

For the first time in history, New York City's subway will close between 1 A.M. and 5 A.M. for disinfection. 

Maryland state police and the National Guard are securing the state's coronavirus testing supplies in an undisclosed location to prevent their seizure by federal authorities. 

Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to compel slaughterhouses to remain open during the pandemic. At least 20 workers at meat-packing plants have died of COVID-19 thus far, and 5,000 have tested positive. 

The National Park Service conducts a 260-acre controlled burn at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial so that the large fireworks display that President Trump wants to hold there on July 3 can go forward. 

The EPA publishes its proposal to allow more fine particulate air pollution, even though exposure to such pollution appears to be a key contributor to the risk of mortality from COVID-19.  

Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls the social distancing measures in California, where he has a large factory, "fascist."

In the absence of tourists, poachers are slaughtering wildlife in African parks and wildlife reserves.  

Twelve rangers who guard the world's last mountain gorillas are killed in an ambush in Congo. 

Every year Russia loses about 10 yards of its Arctic coastline—an area the size of Liechtenstein—to erosion and thawing permafrost. 

In 2019, the operating generating capacity of US wind—the maximum power output of the nation's wind turbines—surpassed that of nuclear. 

In the past 30 years, Earth has lost more than a quarter of its insects.