Painting one of a wind turbine’s three blades black can reduce bird strikes by over 70 percent.

More than 180,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. New cases are down by 12 percent in the past week, but 900 people a day are still dying. 

Africa has eliminated the wild polio virus.

Hurricane Laura hits the coast of Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm. The National Hurricane Center warned that it could bring an “unsurvivable storm surge” of up to 20 feet. 

Realtor.com is the first real estate listing service to include a property’s flood risk. 

ExxonMobil Corp. is removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company’s previous incarnation, Standard Oil, was the Dow’s oldest member. 

A gas-fired power plant in Los Angeles has been leaking more than 10,000 cubic feet of methane per hour “for the last couple years.”

It is now legal to hunt coyotes in Kansas at night using lights and thermal-imaging equipment. 

A watchdog group says that the National Park Service “appeared to be complicit” in helping President Trump create a campaign video.

Contrary to early reports that California’s Big Basin State Park was “gone” in the wake of the wildfire that swept the park, most of the park’s redwoods survived the blaze. The fire did destroy an 80-acre sanctuary used to reintroduce California condors to the region.  

After several prominent Republicans speak out against the Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the Army Corps of Engineers reverses its position and declares that the project cannot be permitted as proposed. 

California’s famed Squaw Valley ski resort will change its “racist, sexist” name. 

Carbon emissions from aircraft in Europe are down 70 percent from last year. Car sales in Europe are down 38 percent—except for electric cars, which are surging. 

A floating island made of pumice the size of Paris that was created by an undersea volcano crashes into Australia.  

Asteroid 2018VP1 might strike Earth the day before the November 3 presidential election. It is, however, very small and unlikely to do much damage.