"David Letterman has lined up his first television gig since retiring from 'Late Show' in May. The comedian will appear as a correspondent in the second season of the climate change documentary series, 'Years of Living Dangerously,' which will premiere on National Geographic in October 2016, just ahead of the presidential election."

"The world’s biggest public relations company has decided it will no longer work with coal producers and climate change deniers."

"CSX Transportation moves up to five trains, each carrying 1 million gallons or more of a kind of crude oil, through Baltimore weekly, according to records released Wednesday by the Maryland Department of the Environment."

"Ever since it was launched from the temple-like headquarters of the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1888, National Geographic magazine has illuminated the world’s hidden places and revealed its natural wonders. On Wednesday, the iconic ­yellow-bordered magazine, beset by financial issues, entered its own uncharted territory. In an effort to stave off further decline, the magazine was effectively sold by its nonprofit parent organization to a for-profit venture whose principal shareholder is one of Rupert Murdoch’s global media companies."

"Greenpeace has hired a team of investigative journalists as part of plans to make investigations one of three pillars of its environmental campaigning."