The British royal bees are informed of the death of Queen Elizabeth, and told that their new sovereign is Charles III.

A Louisiana court throws out the permits that would have allowed Formosa Plastics to build a massive petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, where it would have emitted 800 tons of toxic pollution and 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases annually in the predominantly Black communities of “Cancer Alley.”

Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species that is the primary carrier of Zika, Chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever, arrives in New Mexico.

New York declares a state of emergency over the comeback of polio.

Oakland, California, creates a “cultural easement” granting exclusive control of five acres of parkland to the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, a tribe of the Ohlone people, in reparation for the theft of their land by European settlers.

Divorce among mostly monogamous albatross pairs is more likely when the male is shy.

An Australian man is killed by a kangaroo that he kept as a pet.

Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor-apparel maker Patagonia, gives away the $3 billion company to a trust and a nonprofit collective that will employ the company’s $100 million annual profits to fight climate change and preserve undeveloped land.

The Whitney Glacier, California’s longest, lost nine inches of ice depth per day during the state’s September heat wave. Mt. Shasta lost nearly all of its snow cover for the second year running.

Oregon's last remaining coal-fired power plant at Boardman is brought down in a controlled explosion [video].

During the California heat wave, its industrial-scale battery reserves—many attached to utility-scale solar farms—prevented rolling blackouts in the state. During one critical period on the evening of September 5, batteries supplied the grid with more power than the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. 

Due to surging prices for fossil fuel energy this year, rooftop solar installations in Spain have increased tenfold.

A Delaware hunter discovers a mature 65-foot-high American chestnut tree that escaped the blight that killed all other native chestnuts in the state a century ago.

Drought in Somalia puts half a million children at risk of starvation.

Avian influenza has now been detected in cetaceans, including a dolphin in Florida and a porpoise in Sweden.

Following three years of rehabilitation after their rescue from years of captivity in a tiny hotel pool (and, before that, a traveling circus), three bottlenose dolphins are released into the open ocean off Indonesia.

When passengers in a car are struck by another weighing 1,000 pounds more, their chances of dying increase by 47 percent.