The World Trade Organization rules that the United States cannot insist that Mexican fishers avoid killing dolphins while catching tuna to be sold in the U.S.

In retaliation for new U.S. duties on Canadian wood imports, Canada threatens to bar shipments of U.S. coal from British Columbia ports.

In Tasmania, rising ocean waters ironically threaten an historic coal mine.

Saying that it is time to end the “abusive practice” of establishing national monuments under the Antiquities Act, President Trump orders a review of all such designations, with a special focus on Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. The review could ultimately open some 30 now-protected monuments to fossil-fuel extraction. 

Americans spend more on outdoor recreation than they do on gasoline and pharmaceuticals combined.

For the first time, drones are employed in a search for hikers missing in the Grand Canyon. 

In South Dakota, 15 people are indicted for trafficking in eagle parts and feathers. 

Two wildlife rangers are killed by elephant poachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Public opposition kills a proposed hydroelectric dam on the salmon-rich Snow River in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

The Treasury Department refuses to allow ExxonMobil to drill in areas of Russia that are barred by sanctions. 

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