A walrus turns up on Valentia Island, off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland—a rare but not unprecedented occurrence.

The first grizzly bear of the year emerges from hibernation in Yellowstone National Park on March 16.

The EPA’s web page on climate change, banished during the Trump administration, is back.

Globally, more than 10 million people have been displaced by climate disasters in the past six months. 

Debra Anne Haaland, a 35th-generation New Mexican and a member of the Laguna Pueblo, is confirmed by the Senate as secretary of the interior, the first Native American to hold that post.

Aruká Juma, the last member of the Juma people in the Brazilian Amazon, dies of COVID-19.

As deforestation in South America diminishes the numbers of regent honeyeaters, surviving males are singing simplified or even “totally incorrect” songs. 

Republican attorneys general from 21 states sue the Biden administration for revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline. 

A study of 30 pairs of women and their newborn infants finds 55 chemicals in their blood that have not been previously reported in humans. Many are associated with pesticides, nonstick cookware, and food packaging.  

The number of wild Mexican wolves in the Southwest US has doubled in the past five years.

A Hawaiian rescue team frees an emaciated young humpback whale from much of the fishing line in which it was entangled.  

Endangered right whales enjoy their most successful calving season since 2013, with 18 new additions thus far to a population of about 350.

Adding seaweed to the feed of cattle could reduce their methane emissions by more than 80 percent.

The highly invasive zebra mussel may be establishing itself in the Columbia River watershed via moss balls from aquarium supply stores. 

In 2020, Australia added three gigawatts of rooftop solar, as much as the United States added.

All 16 nuclear plants in the PJM Interconnection, the country’s largest grid operator, appear to have lost money in 2020.  

Connecticut authorities seize 65 goats from the home of a prominent anti-nuclear activist.