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Conservation News ~ 29 January 2021

1/29/2021

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  • SD Zoo’s Gorilla troop is eating, drinking, interacting, and on their way to a full recovery from covid
  • "Biden's First 100 Days: What's Coming On Energy"
  • "Biden Signals 'New Direction' On Regulations"
  • Kerry Commits US To Climate Crisis Fight But Warns World Is Way Off Pace
  • As Biden Takes Office, A Whole New Era For Writing About Climate Change
  • "Biden Halts Oil And Gas Leases, Permits on US Land And Water"
  • "Sharon Block, Union Ally, Named to White House Regulatory Post"
  • "Biden Readies Second Batch Of Climate Orders For Next Week: Memo"
  • Southern Ocean Warming Faster Than Thought, Threatening Antarctic Ice
  • "Tracking Biden’s Environmental Actions"
  • "Why Are People Living Near Dutch Goat Farms Getting Sick?"
  • Oregon’s Crater, Waldo lakes designated ‘Outstanding Resource Waters’
  • Ice covers the Sahara Desert for just 4th time in 50 years
  • Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
  • Wisconsin Republicans Demand DNR Resume Wolf Hunt Immediately
  • Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
  • Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ
  • No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus
  • Signs, but no sightings: The phantom rhinos of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan
  • Podcast: With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?
  • In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance
  • Atomic bomb tests help scientists finally date sharks
  • Another extension for humpback whale habitat rule
  • "Ex-DOJ Official Called ‘Radioactive’ After Alleged Election Plot"
  • "Biden EPA Asks DOJ To Hit Pause On Defense Of Trump-Era Rules"
  • "Electric Vehicles Close To ‘Tipping Point’ Of Mass Adoption"
  • "Biden to Convene World Leaders to Talk Climate on Earth Day"
  • "DuPont, Chemours in $4 Billion ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cost Pact"
  • "Tracking Biden’s Environmental Actions"
  • "U.S. Rejoins Fight Against Climate Change At High Level Summit"
  • "Buttigieg’s Climate Promises: What Could He Actually Do?"
  • "Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like"
  • "Planting Crops — And Carbon, Too"
  • Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?
  • Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns
  • Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection
  • "Schumer Calls For Biden To Declare Climate Emergency"
  • Biden Sets in Motion Plan to Ban New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land
  • "Biden Vows To Replace U.S. Government Fleet With Electric Vehicles"
  • "DOJ Watchdog Probes If Staff Tried to Alter Election Outcome"
  • "Earth Is Now Losing 1.2 Trillion Tons Of Ice Each Year"
  • "Climate Scientist Michael Mann: Deniers Are Shifting Tactics"
  • "Jair Bolsonaro Could Face Charges In The Hague Over Amazon Rainforest"
  • Eminent Domain Lets Pipeline Developers Take Land From Black Owners
  • "U.S. To 'Make Good' On Climate Finance Pledges, Kerry Tells Leaders"
  • Officials Hail 'Encouraging' Number Of N Atlantic Right Whale Births
  • Endangered Siamese crocodile in rare sighting at Thai national park
  • Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)
  • Indonesia remembers ‘irreplaceable’ Gunawan Wiradi, gentle giant of the countryside
  • Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo
  • What does a great argus pheasant sound like? Candid Animal Cam listens to birds
  • Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat
  • "Biden To Place Environmental Justice At Center Of Sweeping Climate Plan"
  • "Dakota Access Pipeline Loses Appeal, Fueling Shutdown Fight"
  • Coal-State Manchin Takes on Key Chairmanship for Dems Climate Effort
  • "'Enormously Big Deal': Fed Creates Climate Committee"
  • "New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds"
  • "Judge: Commercial Filmmakers Don't Need Permits In National Parks"
  • "Who is Jeffrey Bossert Clark?"
  • Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Hit
  • Coal Communities Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power
  • "Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World"
  • The Plastic Waste Free Islands project 2020 update: key progress made over the last year
  • Resolutions promoted by IUCN members in the Mediterranean region
  • IUCN World Conservation Congress to be held from 3 to 11 September 2021 in Marseille
  • Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs
  • Energy spent avoiding humans linked to smaller home ranges for male pumas
  • Rare parrot is breeding in Tasmania in record numbers
  • Biden To 'Pause' Oil And Gas Leasing On Public Lands And Waters
  • Wind-Blown Dust Is Causing Greenland’s Ice to Melt Faster
  • Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo
  • Kruger rhino populations plummet – latest official stats
  • Kenya, Tanzania plan to conduct wildlife census
  • Biden's "30 by 30" order could close-off 30 percent of US ocean to fishing
  • Conservation Fund’s Green Bonds Pay Off: Eight Forests And 220,000 Acres
  • Earth Has Lost More Than 28 Trillion Tons of Ice Since 1994
  • White House Website Recognizes Climate Change Is Real Again
  • Brazil to end military-led program against Amazon logging deforestation
  • World's Smallest Chameleon Discovered And It’s "Surprisingly" Well-Endowed
  • Baby crocodiles from endangered species born at zoo in Peru
  • Biden signs 'existential' executive orders on climate and environment
  • New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
  • A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico
  • "Biden, Emphasizing Job Creation, Signs Sweeping Climate Actions"
  • "Public Lands: Biden Debuts Bold Conservation Goal, Job Corps"
  • "Analysis: How Biden's Freeze On Drilling Leases Affects CO2"
  • "Biden Says He Will Ask Congress To Eliminate Subsidies For Fossil Fuels"
  • "Biden Bolsters DOJ Focus on Environmental Justice, Climate"
  • "President Biden’s 30% Conservation Commitment Is Good News for People, Too"
  • Kerry Promises US Climate Change Diplomacy Won’t Weaken China Policy
  • "How Biden’s Climate Ambitions Could Shift America’s Global Footprint"
  • Atmospheric River Stalls, Triggers Mudslides And Is Set To Hit L.A.
  • "Empty Seas: Oceanic Shark Populations Dropped 71% Since 1970"
  • Oceanic shark and ray populations have collapsed by 70 percent over 50 years
  • NEW ZEALAND GETS ITS FIRST VEGAN MILK FACTORY
  • Nigeria seizes pangolin scales bound for Vietnam
  • Lizard-like tuatara’s extra set of genes may help them tolerate cold
  • Snowy owl is spotted in Central Park for first time in 130 years
  • Kering and Conservation International launch the Regenerative Fund for Nature
  • More than 1700 acres of SLO county ranchland now protected as wildlife preserve
  • GM seeks to end making gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035
  • Climate crisis – world is at its hottest for at least 12,000 years
  • Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
  • Biden orders sweeping preview of government science integrity policies
  • Liquid nitrogen leak at Georgia poultry plant kills 6
  • Oil industry stunned by Biden's fast action on fossil-fuel finance and drilling on public lands
  • Senegal closes Bird Park after Mass  Pelican deaths
  • In 2020, renewable energy beat fossil fuels across Europe
  • Sweden suspends mink fur farming to stop spread of covid
  • France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold climate change is now a national  Climate change is now a national security priority for the Pentagon
  • Biden signs executive order protecting 30% of lands and Oceans by 2030
  • Biden orders halt to oil and gas leasing on public lands
  • House push-to-pass indigenous peoples bill after controversial 2020 legislation
  • BC First Nation asks Court to order release of site C Dam safety
  • Mange in Yellowstone wolves reveals insights into human scabies and conservation biology
  • Three new species of extinct marsupials identified
  • Ultra rare whale washed up off Florida is a new species
  • Endangered plant species found in Honolulu FedEx package
  • 6% of Earth's protected land is used to grow crops
  • Nigeria Customs intercepts huge haul of Pangolin scales and Ivory
  • 3 rhinos killed in two separate incidents in Zimbabwe
  • Feds are investigating pritzker EPA for approving new scrap Shredder on Chicago's heavily polluted land
  • Air Pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss
  • Wolf immigration doesn't compensate for losses from hunting
  • SoCal Edison to pay 2.2 billion dollar settlement in deadly 2018 Woolsey fire
  • Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year
  • Markets punish mining companies a hundred million dollars when environmental activists are killed
  • Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source
  • Rediscovered volcano mouse survive the second most powerful eruption of the 20th century
  • North Carolina judge orders plan to release more captive-bred endangered Red Wolves into Wild
  • European Banks quit Ecuador's Amazonian oil trade
  • Humboldt Dunes designated national natural landmarks buy US Department of the interior
  • UN calls for Urgent shift to Planet friendly development
  • Solar panels capture more sunlight with capsaicin
  • Monitors head to the Border after order to Halt the wall
  • UN:  human progress at stake in post  covid choices
  • Porpoise population rebounds after California  gillnet ban
  • New York City Pension funds begin historic fossil fuel divestment
  • Sumatran Rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy
  • China faces questions over flagrant trade in chimps and elephants
  • Tanzania cancel GMO trials again
  • Missouri officials remove peregrine falcon from endangered species list
  • Norway is now selling more electric cars than petrol vehicles
  • Autopsy of Estonian Zoo's Asiatic lion uncovers  covid
  • Rhino shot by poachers makes remarkable recovery in Zimbabwe
  • UN treaty Banning nuclear weapons takes effect without the Us and other powers
  • Norway's equinor clinches New York offshore wind contract
  • We haven't seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
  • Shortfin mako shark, warty sea cucumber protection sought in Mexico
  • Brazil's indigenous leaders sue bolsonaro for crimes against humanity
  • Punjabi University scientists find two new species of rare ant
  • Big us oil drillers have Federal permits to mute effect of any Biden band
  • West Coast has lost a quarter of its gray whale population since 2016
  • EPA Chief just pardoned lab rabbits from animal testing
  • Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon
  • A nine year olds UK plastic waste petition has got over 80,000 signatures in a week
  • Wisconsin natural resources board denies a motion to open State wolf hunting and trapping season by February 10th
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Conservation News ~ 22 January 2021

1/22/2021

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  • New Zealand eagle rays astonish aquarium with mystery births
  • ‘Gas is over’, EU bank chief says
  • Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, of Parrish, Florida, was charged with conspiracy, trafficking and submitting false records
  • Honda had planned to electrify all its European models in 2025. But now they're going for 2022 instead.
  • Scientists are discovering new species in the ancient canopies of Canada’s tallest trees
  • Elon Musk pledges $100 million for carbon capture technology  
  • Six Entrapped Manatees at Pine Island Conservation Area Rescued By Florida Fish and Wildlife    
  • Scientists Just Discovered 3 New Kinds of Carnivorous Sponge in The Deep Ocean
  • UL Lafayette scientists discover new species of hermit crab in Gulf of Mexico
  • BLM approves highway across Washington County's Red Cliffs conservation area
  • "Biden Unveils $1.9T Plan To Stem Covid-19 And Steady Economy"
  • "Nine Michigan Leaders Face Charges in Water Crisis That Roiled Flint"
  • "Toyota to Pay a Record Fine for a Decade of Clean Air Act Violations"
  • "Climate: Federal Regulator Nixes Bank Fossil Fuel Pledges"
  • "Countries Adapting Too Slowly To Climate Breakdown, UN Warns"
  • After Winning Most ANWR Bids, Alaska Agency Prepares To Assume Oil Leases
  • "Biden Swells The Ranks Of His White House Climate Team"
  • "Groups Sue Federal EPA To Rescind Florida Wetlands Authority"
  • Emails Show DOI Ethics Staff Raised Concerns On Oct. Video Promoting Trump
  • "Groups Ask Court To Restore Protections For US Gray Wolves"
  • New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group
  • Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon
  • Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn
  • Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species
  • Arrests in Minnesota After Water Protectors Chain Themselves Inside Pipe Section to Halt Line 3 Construction
  • Dave Bautista Places $20,000 Bounty on Individuals Who Defaced Manatee
  • 4 Major Asian Nations Cancel 80% of Planned Coal Power Projects After Fossil Fuel Market Crashes in 2020
  • Costa Rica pledges to eliminate all single-use plastics and fossil fuels by 2021
  • Axis Capital Rules Out Insuring Arctic Oil and Gas Projects
  • Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
  • "Democrats Eye Action On Range Of Climate Bills"
  • Senate Majority Offers Biden New Paths On Trump Environmental Rollbacks
  • "A Thin Green Line with Global Impact"
  • Los Angeles Lifts Air-Quality Limits For Cremations As Covid Deaths Double
  • "Groups Sue EPA Over 'Backwards' Lead Rule"
  • 12 States, Green Groups Sue EPA Over Airline Standards They Deem Weak
  • "Montana’s National Bison Range Transferred To Tribes"
  • "Analysis: Mississippi Pump Fight Unresolved As Trump Departs"
  • "Trump Admin Proposes 11th-Hour Plan To Strip Calif. Desert Protections
  • "Thai Caves Attract Millions of Bats — and Now Scientists Too"
  • "Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback"
  • "Gina McCarthy Outlines Biden's First Climate Actions"
  • Biden to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline in Inauguration Day Executive Order
  • High Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change: State or Fed Jurisdiction?
  • "Biden To Order Agencies To Revisit Vehicle Tailpipe Emissions Standards"
  • Manchin Talks Inauguration, Impeachment, New Leverage In Congress
  • Biden ‘Inheriting A Disaster’ As Virus Continues To Grip Nation
  • "EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Taken to Court by States, Cities"
  • China's 2020 Coal Output Highest Since 2015, Undermining Climate Pledges
  • Calls To Protect Alabama's Unique 60,000-Year-Old Underwater Forest
  • "Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
  • "Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
  • US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
  • Bernhardt Rescinds Wilderness Protection Order Before Leaving Office
  • "Senate Power-Sharing Talks Hits Filibuster Snag"
  • "Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push"
  • 15 States Sue EPA Over Decision Not To Tighten Pollution Standard For Smog
  • "Path to Biden’s Green Buying Pledge Runs Through Obama Policies"
  • "Northwest’s Salmon Population May Be Running Out of Time"
  • "Electric Car Batteries With Five-Minute Charging Times Produced"
  • ‘Spectacular’ orange-furred bat described from West African mountain
  • Fears for rosewood as Guinea-Bissau prepares to lift six-year logging ban
  • Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
  • Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
  • Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls
  • Biden to review changes to national monuments
  • Astronomers estimate Titan’s largest sea is 1,000-feet deep
  • Prince of Wales trappers report 68 wolves taken in 2020
  • Spitting cobras may have evolved unique venom to defend from ancient humans
  • Biden blocks drilling in ANWR
  • New Mexico zoo sends endangered wolf pack to Mexico
  • Indigenous agroforesty revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
  • New species of ancient caiman unearthed in Texas
  • California leads charge against parting gut of endangered species act
  • Dead whale, one of Mediterranean’s largest, found off Italy
  • IUCN releases best practices guidelines for cultural and spiritual significance of nature
  • Pandemic drastically cut emissions from cars but was completely cut out but sales of SUVs
  • Germany approves draft law to end mass culling of male chicks
  • Trillions of brood 10 cicadas to emerge in US after 17 years underground
  • Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Ibera Wetlands after 70 years
  • Pet trade relies on disposable wild chameleons from Madagascar
  • Biden blocks Keystone XL pipeline
  • China’s 2020 coal output rises to highest since 2015, undermining climate pledges
  • Indonesia hit by possibly worst floods in 50 years
  • Covid is threatening Africa’s gorilla trekking industry – but responsible tourism could be the cure
  • Bill to outlaw traps, snares, and wildlife poisons introduced in New Mexico Senate
  • Scientists dropped dead alligators onto the seafloor, and discovered a new bone-eating creature
  • Tiger skin seized, 3 poachers held in Indore
  • Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
  • Earth’s oceans are storing record-breaking amounts of heat
  • Remembrance Forests in Brazil: 200,000 trees for 200,000 COVID victims
  • On last full day in office, Trump grants Arctic drilling leases
  • Elephants look tiny from space, but scientists figured outhow to count them
  • Supreme court considers Baltimore suit against oil companies
  • Researchers may have heard the’ humming sound’ of the universe for the first time ever
  • Two new northern white rhino embryos created at Christmas – now there are five
  • New orchid species identified in Madagascar
  • Two shark species sighted for the first time in the Galapagos
  • Hawaii’s military bases dumped 630,000 pounds of toxic nitrate into the ocean
  • Newly-discovered Hawaiian flower is so rare, there is only one plant of its species
  • Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar
  • Conservation biologist murdered in Colombia saved two species
  • Nashville Zoo mourns loss of newborn giraffe
  • Astronomers discover rare, 10 billion year old ‘super-earth’ outside of our solar system
  • Nature Conservancy of Canada asks visitors to respect nature reserves
  • Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy
  • Trump administration proposed 11th hour plan to strip California desert protections
  • Protestors hold back military takeover of Balkans largest mountain pasture
  • Additional mink test positive for COVID
  • NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’
  • Rare whales spotted off coast of Virginia
  • World’s oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions
  • How companies wrongly placed climate change on the public
  • Beetle keeps rivals off scent of food buried for offspring
  • Birds’ genetic secrets revealed in global DNA study
  • Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change
  • Satellites are being used to help save the world’s coral reefs
  • Wind power overtakes coal in Texas electricity generation
  • Indonesia palm oil traders are failing land and environmental defenders
  • New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by indigenous group
  • New antimicrobial streptomyces species discovered in ancient Irish soil
  • Lawsuit launched to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for Sierra Nevada Red Fox
  • The European bison is no longer a vulnerable species
  • 1 in 100 camels die after foraging on plastics mistaken for food
  • Boris Johnson blames onset of coronavirus pandemic on ‘demented’ Chinese medicine
  • China removes pangolin scales from traditional medicine list
  • Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade
  • New mangrove mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities
  • Glass frogs living near roaring waterfalls wave hello to attract mates
  • Salish Sea Killer Whales have surprising new way of hunting
  • Large mammals make soil more fertile in tropical forests
  • US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific
  • Boris Johnson vows to take a stand against Japanese whale killing
  • 2020 was hottest year on record on narrow margin
  • Manatees had a terrible 2020; rainfall and floodgates are partly to blame
  • California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years
  • Yellowstone’s rarest animal caught on trail camera for first time
  • The Center of Biological Diversity is now a proud member of IUCN
  • Researchers trace geologic origins of Gulf of Mexico’s ‘super basin’ success
  • Eastern snapping turtle use culverts to hunt migratory herring
  • Electric eels work together to zap prey
  • Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributes to COVID lockdowns
  • Massive new dinosaur might be the largest creature to ever roam Earth
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Conservation News ~ 15 January 2021

1/15/2021

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  • ‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says
  • Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven
  • Sumatran rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy
  • Group to sue interior secretary for delaying protection of spotted owl, other species
  • Cocaine production driving deforestation into Colombian national park
  • 63 tonnes of ‘ghost gear’ removed from Atlantic Ocean in 2020: Fisheries Department
  • "Will Senate Wins Unlock Biden's 100% Clean Energy Agenda?"
  • "Second-Warmest Year on Record Cost the World $210 Billion"
  • Multiple Tribes Protest Drilling Of 5,000 Oil And Gas Wells In Wyoming
  • "Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived"
  • "Garland Would Bring Rare Environmental Chops as Attorney General"
  • "Cutting Concrete’s Carbon Footprint"
  • Radar Technology That Could Revolutionize Hurricane Forecasts Unfunded
  • Want To Save B.C. Salmon? Bring Back Indigenous Fishing Systems: Study
  • "EPA Chief To Visit Costa Rica As Administration Winds Down"
  • Namibia sees steady downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching
  • Researchers develop new system for measuring ship-generated underwater noise
  • WWF outlines drone guidelines for conservation
  • $95 Billion Damages: US Saw Record Year For Climate-Driven Catastrophes
  • "2020 Ties 2016 as Hottest Yet, European Analysis Shows"
  • ‘Red Flag’: How An Ethanol Plant Is Dangerously Polluting A US Village
  • "Exxon Mobil Is Twisting Itself in Knots to Justify Pumping Even More Oil"
  • "Trump Moves To Loosen Mining Regulations, Approve Projects As He Exits"
  • "Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth"
  • Climate Hitting Colorado River 'Incredibly Fast And Incredibly Hard'
  • "Oil Companies Stockpile Drilling Permits, Challenging Biden On Climate"
  • "Trump Environmental Record Marked by Big Losses, Undecided Cases"
  • Prince Charles Urges Businesses To Sign Pledge To Put Planet First
  • Six rangers killed in deadly militia attack in DRC’s Virunga National Park
  • Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges
  • Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest
  • The gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
  • "50 Countries Vow To Protect 30% Of Land And Sea By 2030"
  • "Dirty Air And Lost Pregnancies In South Asia"
  • "Interior: Bernhardt OKs Contentious BLM Law Enforcement Reforms"
  • "Top Senator Warns Banks: 'Account For Climate'"
  • "Here's What Might Be In Biden's First Climate Order"
  • "Insect Populations Suffering Death By 1,000 Cuts, Say Scientists"
  • Texas Eye Tougher Rules On Chemical Tanks To Prevent Explosions, Spills
  • "What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020"
  • "A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia"
  • Someone Wrote ‘Trump’ On A Manatee. Feds, Florida Are Investigating
  • "Michigan Plans To Charge Ex-Gov. Snyder In Flint Water Probe"
  • "Apache Group Sues Over Land Swap For Arizona Copper Mine"
  • "Deflect And Obstruct: How Interior Ducked House Oversight"
  • "A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation"
  • "Sage Grouse Review Done, But Scant Time For Trump’s Changes"
  • "Great Lakes: Enbridge To Defy Mich. Order To Halt Pipeline Flow"
  • "Climate: Trump EPA Aims To Tie Biden's Hands With Rulemaking Surprise"
  • Climate Scientists, Mothers, Urge Americans To Act
  • Trump Admin Slashes Critical Habitat For Northern Spotted Owl
  • "17 States Sue EPA For Declining To Tighten Air Pollution Standards"
  • How Trump Admin’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council
  • "Climate Crisis: Record Ocean Heat In 2020 Supercharged Extreme Weather"
  • Coalition Calls On Biden To Impose National Moratorium On Water Shutoffs
  • Wildfire Smoke Causes Up To Half Fine-Particle Pollution in Western U.S.
  • Fossil-Friendly Manchin To Head Senate Energy Panel As Dems Face Climate
  • "Navajo Nation, New Mexico Reach Settlements Over Mine Spill"
  • "Lyme Disease Much More Common Than Previously Thought, Study Shows"
  • "Lawsuit Seeks More Protection For Endangered Right Whales"
  • Europe’s largest bank suspected of greenwashing
  • Tanzania to auction 30 ‘tourist hunting blocks in game reserves
  • Humpback whale latest victim of Taiji fisheries
  • LA County releases LA River restoration plan
  • Scientists have identified the 100 largest companies extracting the majority of their revenues from the world’s oceans
  • Defenders, Guardians and other organizations challenge nationwide wolf delisting
  • Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Palpur to be India’s first cheetah sanctuary
  • Forest Defenders – a Panamanian tribe regains control of its lands
  • Climate deniers shift tactics to inactivism
  • World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
  • Wildlife photographer promotes lion conservation with stunning portraits
  • Eugene conservation group objects to plans for post-fire savage logging
  • Scientists discover new ‘spectacular’ bat from West Africa
  • CSULB President issues statement saying no building on Puvungna Land
  • Nez Perce Tribe reclaims 148 acres of ancestral land in Eastern Oregon
  • Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20-to 30 years
  • Swedish postage stamp celebrates work of Greta Thunberg
  • Most Europeans plant ot curb flying, eat less meat for climate, EU polls says
  • Saudi Arabia is building a zero-carbon city in a 100-mile straight line
  • Renewables produce more power than fossil fuels in Germany for first time
  • New species of bark beetle is a master of disguise
  • A new species of fruit fly named after Siruvani
  • A single cat wiped out an entire colony of fairy terns
  • Sharks born prematurely, weaker in warmer ocean temperatures
  • World’s tallest trees bigger than thought
  • Cherokee Nation establishes first hunting, fishing reserves
  • Michigan plans to charge ex-Gov Rick Snyder in Flint water scandal
  • Evidence of huntsman spider creating leaf trap for a frog found in Madagascar
  • Environmental groups sue in bid to block EPA ‘secret science’ rule
  • Guardians of Congo’s gorillas unbowed as ambushed colleague is buried
  • Invasive brown tree snakes stun scientists with amazing new climbing tactic
  • UK pledges $4billion to nature and biodiversity protection
  • White House auctions Arctic refuge to oil drillers in last stroke against US wilderness
  • Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts
  • 3 neon-green fluorescent geckos species discovered
  • Prince Charles asks companies to join Earth charter
  • Ocean acidification is transforming California mussel shells
  • More than 50 countries commit to protection of 30% of Earth’s land and oceans
  • US consumes more green energy than coal for first time since 1885
  • Feds launch new assault on endangered species, public lands
  • UN chief calls for urgent transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
  • Global heating could stabilize if countries go net-zero emissions
  • A hi-tech eye in the sky lays bare Hawaii’s living coral reefs
  • Scientists discover hundreds of deep-ocean reefs
  • Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals
  • Paris agrees to turn Champs-Elysees into ‘extraordinary garden
  • As Enbridge to build line 3 Pipeline, resistance ramps up in the courts and on the ground
  • For the first time, Starbucks takes on zero-waste construction
  • Scientists discover slimy microbes that may help keep coral reefs healthy
  • Adidas new vegan leather shoes will be made from fungi
  • Six rangers killed in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park
  • New wild mushroom named after Pauri in U’khand
  • Elusive Catalina Island Shrew, feared extinct, spotted for 1st time in years
  • First Philippine eagle bred in captivity dies
  • Evidence of water movement found in meteorites that only recently fell to Earth
  • Jungle cat observed for first time in northwestern Iran
  • The platypus is now a threatened species in the Victoria, Australia
  • Biden picks Mr. Monsanto Tom Vilsack to head the USDA
  • Nearly 600 manatees died in Florida waters in 2020
  • The US just got a new national park – and it’s a rock climbing and whitewater rafting paradise
  • Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England
  • Pesticide believed to kill bees in authorized for use in England
  • Cameroon says elephants killed 10, leaving many homeless and hungry
  • Indistrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
  • Young killer whale rescued after stranding on Scottish beach
  • New species, devil-eyed frog, and Satyr butterfly not seen for a century found in forests 30 years
  • New species of recluse spider named for Leonard Cohen
  • France plans mass duck slaughter as bird flu hits foie gras
  • Pikas are adapting to climate change remarkably well, contrary to many predictions
  • CO2 levels this year 50 percent higher than 19th century
  • India’s leopard populations increases by 60% in 4 years
  • Emmanuel Macron announces the One Planet summit biodiversity
  • IUCN Green List hels Huangshan Scenic Area in integrated management of three UNESCO designations
  • 843 nominations received from across 43 countries for the new International Ranger awards
  • UK overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha becomes one of the world’s biggest sanctuaries for wildlife
  • Quebec meets UN convention’s terrestrial protected area target of 17%
  • Egypt’s Wadi El-Hitan nature reserve praised for good practice by IUCN
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Conservation News ~ 8 January 2021

1/8/2021

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  • Historical data point to imminent extinction of Tapanuli orangutan
  • Platypus disappear from five locations around south-east Queensland
  • New bee species found in the Great Smokies
  • Lawsuit launched to protect eight Florida plants threatened by sea-level rise, development
  • Gray Wolves delisted, remain protected by state in Oregon
  • Monk Seal killings on Kauai highlight human threat to endangered species
  • Nearly a century after being extirpated, blue whales are moving back to South Georgia Island
  • Australian wildlife 20 times more likely to encounter deadly feral cats than native predators
  • Alberta to allow new coal strip mines that could kill four blue-ribbon trout rivers
  • Rescuing orangutans doesn’t work for apes or forests
  • New genus of tiny iridescent snake from Philippines found in collection
  • Grey wolves off the endangered species list
  • Severe climate-driven loss of native molluscs reported off Israel’s coast
  • Uninhabited Aldabara coral atoll filled with plastic from humans
  • Finger pointed at poachers after rare lynx killed in France
  • In parting gift, EPA finalizes rules to limit its use of science
  • Manas National Park doubling its tiger population since 2010
  • Discovery of endangered female turtle provides hope for extremely rare species
  • Nigeria superhighway project through the rainforest stopped
  • Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves
  • 1 million species are at risk of extinction, new UN report says
  • Bali’s beaches buried in tide of plastic rubbish during monsoon season
  • South African game reserves forced to cull animals as COVID halts tourism
  • China jails ivory smuggling ringleaders for life in landmark case
  • Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in conflict palm oil
  • White House vetoes bipartisan bill to protect marine life from cruel driftnets
  • World’s oldest python found in Messel Pit
  • Kentucky adds its 1st new nature preserve in a decade
  • Researchers learn new tricks to save endangered Big Sandy crayfish
  • GCF researchers recently spotted two dwarf giraffe in Namibia and Uganda
  • New Zealand is seeking to go predator free by 2050 – an audacious effort to save its unique wildlife
  • Many scientists now say global warming could stop relatively quickly after emissions go to zero
  • Un makes progress on greening the blue
  • Masks add up to 6,240 metric tons of plastic pollution to oceans in 2020
  • Bald Eagles removed from Indiana endangered species list
  • Centralia coal-burning plant shutter unit nine years after Washington law passes to cut emissions
  • Life discovered in Deep ocean sediments at temperatures above water’s boiling point
  • Pal Alto-based institute supports team’s daunting task of mapping world’s ocean floor
  • Groups can’t challenge endangered species plans
  • Two white rhinos killed and dehorned at Limpopo game reserve
  • State approves Ballona Wetlands restoration plan that divides environmentalists
  • 2020 was a breakthrough year for climate tech
  • Wild and captive jaguars mate in Argentina to save species
  • New glass domed trains offer breathtaking views from Colorado Rockies to Utah's Red Rocks
  • Japan adopts green growth plan to go carbon free by 2050
  • Fears grow for whale’s life as footage reveals animal trying to break free
  • A Chilean archipelago rivaling the Galapagos fends off invasive species
  • Exotic animal cafes featuring otters, lizards, and owls raise alarms
  • Bush meat now on sale legally in Tanzania
  • Study shows roadless forests are key to protecting national parks, drinking water, and more
  • Aveda removes beeswax and goes fully vegan
  • Collision at sea as Sea Shepherd vessels attacked in Mexico’s Vaquite refuge
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Firefly, Bees, Poppy Under Endangered Species Act
  • Vietnam jails man for smuggling 29 kg of rhino horns
  • Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano eruption creates 600ft deep lava lake
  • For Latam’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield
  • Historical data point to ‘imminent extinction’ of Tapanuli orangutan
  • Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study
  • "White House Vetoes Bipartisan Driftnet Fishing Bill"
  • White House Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail Top U.S.Climate Report
  • "Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado’s Water"
  • "DuPont Loses Bid for Mistrial After $50 Million PFAS Verdict"
  • Dems Push Regulator To Scrap Rule Forcing Banks To Serve Oil, Gun Firms
  • "Mexico Farm Lobby Blasts Ban on GMO Corn; Organic Growers Welcome It"
  • Sea Level Rise Reduces Some Norfolk Stormwater System Capacity By 50%
  • "Oil, Fuel Leaks Increase As Shipwreck Cutting Progresses"
  • "Trees As A Civil Right: 'All We Have Is Cement And Pavement'"
  • "EPA Finalizes Rule To Limit Science Behind Public Health Safeguards"
  • "117th Congress Opens To New Energy, Environment Fights"
  • "Chemicals: EPA Finds Possible Carcinogen Poses No Harm To Public"
  • Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero
  • "White House To Approve Land Swap For Rio Tinto's Resolution Copper Project"
  • "Biden Set To Supercharge Clean Energy Push With $40B Stash"
  • "Rainforests: 11 Things To Watch In 2021"
  • "Four U.S. Water Stories to Watch in 2021"
  • Interior Finalizes Plan To Open 80 Percent of NPR-A To Drilling"
  • "Homeless In Seattle Get Help From City Waste Pumper"
  • "U.S. Judge Denies Effort To Stop Drilling Auction In Arctic Refuge"
  • Massachusetts To Require 100 Percent Of Car Sales To Be Electric By 2035
  • "Michigan Judge Nullifies Crucial Permit For Mining Project"
  • "Mexican Fisherman 'Dies After Attack On Sea Shepherd Conservationists'"
  • "Grasslands May Soon Produce More Greenhouse Gases Than They Sequester"
  • "Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon"
  • "Electric Vehicles: 4 Ways 2021 Could Be The Year Of The EV"
  • "White House, in Parting Gift to Industry, Reverses Bird Protections"
  • Feral Cats 20 Times More Deadly To Australian Wildlife Than Native Predators
  • "Sale of Drilling Leases in Arctic Refuge Fails to Yield a Windfall"
  • "Early Biden Climate Test: Groups Demand Tougher Rules on Building"
  • "For First Time In 5 Years, US Gas Mileage Down, Emissions Up"
  • "Exxon Discloses Full Scope of Fuel Emissions for First Time"
  • "A New Study on Regenerative Grazing Complicates Climate Optimism"
  • FirstEnergy Faces Another Audit As Advocates Press For Investigations
  • "Two Florida Panthers Dead In First Week Of 2021"
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New Species and People ~ December 2020

1/4/2021

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New Species
  • a begonia
  • a snail
  • new primate in Myanmar
  • a gecko
  • burrowing frog
  • iridescent snake
  • Sea Shepherd discover new whale species in Mexico
  • a frog
  • a bat
  • dancing springtails
  • 20 species found in Bolivian Andes
  • a mouse lemur
  • NC Sandhill Salamander
  • UWA botanist names, describes new ginger species
  • funguses
  • a snake
  • a tree hyrax
  • potato orchid
  • a bee
  • another bee
  • a tree-spider crab
  
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  • Another indigenous elder lost to COVID in the Amazon
  • Georgina Mace, who shaped list of endangered species, dies at 67
  • Paul Sein Twa, co-founder of KESAN and Salween Peace Park in Myanmar, receives Goldman Environmental Prize
  • Dr. Drew Lanham named Center for Biological Diversity’s 2020 EO Wilson Biodiversity award recipient
  • Biden to pick Brenda Mallory to run White House environment office
  • Biden to pick North Carolina’s Michael Regan to lead EPA
  • Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone is on a mission to plant a million trees in two years
  • Biden selects Deb Haaland as Interior secretary
  • UN honours Young Champions of the Earth
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Conservation News ~ 1 January 2021

1/1/2021

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  • EPA Sets 1st-Ever Airplane Emission Rules; Critics Call Them Ineffective
  • "Covid Relief Bill Opens Rush for Renewables on Federal Land"
  • Colorado River Tribes Seek OK From Congress To Market Water In Arizona
  • "In Boost for Renewables, Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is on the Rise"
  • In Madagascar’s South, Drought Pushes 1 Million Plus To Brink Of Famine
  • "Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland Meets With Tribal Leaders"
  • Storm Bella Helps Great Britain Set New Record For Wind Power Generation
  • California AG Created an Environmental Justice Bureau, Now a Trendsetter
  • How BC’s Salmon Farmers Fell Behind The Curve Of Sustainable Aquaculture
  • Air Pollution Is Fertilizing Invasive Grasses In Our Hills, Making Wildfires Worse
  • Atlantic discovery: 12 new species 'hiding in the deep'
  • New UN Rules To Tackle Plastic Waste Dumped On Poorer Countries
  • "Line 3 Opponents File Federal Suit To Try To Block The Pipeline"
  • "Exxon Knows Its Carbon Future And Keeps the Data From View"
  • Greens Sue Over Trump Rule Exempting Quick Dishwashers From Efficiency Stds
  • "Indigenous Environmental Defender Killed In Latest Honduras Attack"
  • "Stimulus Law Program to Scrub Carbon From Air Draws Skeptics"
  • White House Rule Allows LNG Rail Transport In Dense Areas
  • "As Reservoirs Run Low, Mexico City Seeks Durable Fix For Water Woes"
  • "Politico Purchases E&E News"
  • Joy after first pangolin born in KZN wild in over 40 years
  • Sale of Arctic Leases Draws an Unusual Taker. It May Be the Only One.
  • Whitmer Signs Bills Funding $641 Million Settlement In Flint Water Cases
  • Warnock Brings a History of Black Faith Leaders’ Environmental Activism
  • Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters: Costs in Lives and Dollars at New High
  • "Biden to Block Still-Pending Trump Administration Regulations"
  • New River Gorge: Covid-19 Relief Bill Creates A New National Park
  • "New York’s Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings"
  • "Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing"
  • Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
  • Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business
  • White House finalizes rule narrowing habitat protected by Endangered Species Act
  • Polysaccharides from red algae affect the immune system
  • Platypuses increasingly threatened
  • Gonzales native discovers new species of snake native to the Philippines
  • Two new species of ginger found from northeast India
  • Indigenous environmental defender killed in latest Honduras attack
  • Center for Biological Diversity files intent to sue over cadmium and the endangered species act
  • Green Recovery from COVID can slow climate change
  • Nano diamond batteries could last thousands of years
  • The Blackfeet Nation just won a decades-long fight to protect their sacred lands
  • Discovery supports a surprising new view of how life on earth originated
  • Project will double the size of island in US wildlife refuge
  • Increase in invasive European green crabs Oregon’s Coos Bay estuary
  • EU bans plastic waste from being shipped to developing countries
  • Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
  • Trophy hunters killed one animal every three minutes in last decade
  • Earth is moving through radioactive debris of exploded stars
  • Hawaii reboots depression-era Conservation Corps using Pandemic Assistance funds
  • Researchers find a way to pull carbon out of the air and turn it into jet fuel
  • Mauritius oil spill caused by crew chasing mobile phone signals
  • After decades of activism, the Navajo coal plant has been demolished
  • Snakehead species named after local discoverer
  • Scientists find new 100-million-year-old flower species inside a piece of amber in Myanmar
  • Mass die-off of birds in south-western US caused by starvation
  • New tardigrade species withstands lethal UV radiation thanks to fluorescent shield
  • Australian transport emissions back to pre-pandemic levels
  • In Long Beach, California – Colorado Lagoon tidal channel creation begins
  • Oysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 years
  • New species of turtle discovered
  • Declining sea levels in the Caspian Sea will lead to genuine ecocide
  • NASA astronaut Kate Rubins harvests radishes grown in space
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