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Conservation News ~ 28 January 2022

1/28/2022

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  • Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again
  • Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield
  • As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south
  • Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds
  • 'Plantations meet ecological functions of natural forests': Bhupender Yadav
  • Seven new species of 'jumping spiders' found
  • Two species of fungi associated with basal stem rot found
  • EPA Announces New Endangered Species Act Protection Policy for New Conventional Pesticides
  • Bloated Costs Take Over Georgia Nuclear Plant; Fight Looms Over Who Pays
  • "Shell CCS Plant Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It's Captured"
  • "US, Colorado Reach Proposed Settlement In 2015 Mine Spill"
  • "NYC, Others Join White House Building Efficiency Partnership"
  • "In Parched Beijing, Claims Of A ‘Green’ Olympics May Not Hold Water"
  • "House Panel Broadens Probe Into Climate Disinformation By Big Oil"
  • "Exxon Pledges To Cut Emissions — But Not From Its Oil"
  • 'Starting From Zero’: Restoring Finland’s River Ecosystems
  • Old-Fashioned, Inefficient Light Bulbs Live On at U.S. Dollar Stores
  • "Saving The Manatees — Rescue By Rescue, Rehab By Rehab"
  • ‘Ignorant’ forestry director slammed for comments on logging and tigers
  • Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists
  • Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon
  • Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience
  • Ghost orchid proposed for protection as endangered species
  • New insect species discovered
  • Squatina mapama, new species from Panama: first report of an angel shark from the Central America
  • "High Court Drops ‘Earthquake’ on Federal Water Protections"
  • "Heavy Smog Blankets Beijing Ahead Of Olympics"
  • ConocoPhillips’ Arctic Oil Plan Is a Defining Moment for Joe Biden
  • "Aerial Surveys Detect Dozens Of Methane 'Super-Emitters' In Permian"
  • "Minnesota Court Orders Review Of Water Permit For Polymet Mine"
  • "How Biden Could Close Coal Plants Without CO2 Regulations"
  • "Trump EPA Chief's Bid For Top Virginia Environmental Post Likely Doomed"
  • California Rooftop Solar War Heats Up As Regulators Pull Reform Proposal
  • "Can They Go Home Again?"
  • "Why California’s ‘Great Bacon Crisis’ Has Yet To Arrive"
  • Shark attacks increased around the world in 2021 after years of decline
  • Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya
  • Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem
  • Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions
  • Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back
  • Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders
  • US Working To Avert Energy Shortage In Europe If Russia Invades Ukraine
  • "DHS Warns That Right-Wing Extremists Could Attack Power Grid"
  • "Criminal Cases Against Polluters Drop By A Third"
  • "Nearly 200 Democrats Back EPA in Supreme Court Emissions Case"
  • Canada Watchdog Says Funds For Inactive Oil Well Cleanup May Fall Short
  • Toxic PCBs Festered at This School for 8 Years as Students Grew Sicker
  • Hit By More Fires, Floods And Tornados, Americans Struggle To Pay
  • Michigan Builders Push Back On Stricter New Home Energy Rules
  • Oil Firms Accused Of Scare Tactics Over Climate Lawsuits
  • Western Monarch Butterfly Count Hits Five-Year High – For Now
  • Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly Should Be an Endangered Species, USFWS Says
  • Center for Biological Diversity petitions to add nation's smallest turtle to endangered species act
  • More than 220 new animal and plant species discovered in Greater Mekong
  • Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams from mining project
  • Online trade and pet clubs fuel desire for little-known Javan ferret badgers
  • Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say
  • With ‘sustainable’ cocoa, Mars pushes climate, market risks onto farmers
  • South Africa authorizes dumping at sea of cargo that turned volatile
  • Colombo’s seagoing crocodiles under pressure after diver’s killing
  • Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises
  • Nine out of ten Scots back planting more forestry to tackle climate crisis and timber shortfall
  • Lawsuit Challenges Denial of Endangered Species Protection for Florida Lizard
  • "EPA Acts To Curb Air, Water Pollution In Poor Communities"
  • "Even Low Levels of Soot Can Be Deadly to Older People, Research Finds"
  • "Judge Refuses To Delay Release Of Disputed DAPL Documents"
  • PFAS Widespread In Water- And Stain-Resistant Outdoor Clothes, Home Linens
  • "Biden Admin Revokes Mining Leases Near Minnesota's Boundary Waters"
  • "Climate Change: Key Crops Face Major Shifts As World Warms"
  • Alaskan Indigenous Leaders Fear Impacts On Salmon Streams From Mine
  • "Los Angeles Moves To End Oil Drilling In The City"
  • "Youngkin Pick Wheeler Defends EPA Record, Criticizes Media"
  • "Redwood Forest in California Is Returned to Native Tribes"
  • Cuba boosts marine protected coverage with new area spanning reefs to mangroves
  • Western monarchs make a spectacular comeback in California
  • It’s not a cat, it’s the African civet | Candid Animal Cam
  • West Texas A&M professor indicted for violating Endangered Species Act
  • British scientist finds new species of rare leafhopper in Uganda
  • Orcas recorded killing and feeding on blue whales in brutal attacks
  • US plans more wild horse roundups this year than ever before
  • Rewilding California – new $65 million preserve straddles north and south
  • Tapirs and large peccaries are key to ecological balance in neotropical forests
  • Hawaii becomes first state to ban shark fishing
  • After 3000 years absence, Tasmanian Devil cubs reappear in the wild of Australian mainland
  • Taiwan-US pair find five new species of tonguefish
  • Biden administration announces more than $1 billion for Everglades restoration
  • Mange outbreak decimated a wild Vicuna population in Argentina
  • Deepest dwelling squid observed at depth of 6200 meters
  • "Judge Throws Out Massive Gulf Of Mexico Oil And Gas Lease Sale"
  • "Biden Outpaces Trump In Issuing Drilling Permits On Public Lands"
  • Study Links Fracking Pollution to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents
  • Flood, Drought: Climate Change Sends Crop Insurance Payouts Skyrocketing
  • "Alarming Levels of Mercury Are Found in Old Growth Amazon Forest"
  • US Utilities Side With Environment Agency In Supreme Court Climate Case
  • "Biden Administration Moves To Boost Cybersecurity Of Water Systems"
  • "Study: Gas Stoves Worse For Climate Than Previously Thought"
  • "Environmental Justice Groups Sue Over Incinerator Pollution"
  • NIH Finishes Moving Its Former Research Chimps To A Sanctuary
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Conservation News ~ 21 January 2022

1/21/2022

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  • ‘We’re making babies’: After years in decline, Okanagan salmon are back
  • An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest fish breeding ground
  • Newport Beach philanthropists donate $50 million to wildlife corridor in Tehachapi Mountains
  • Large herbivores may improve an ecosystem’s carbon persistence
  • Elephants dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
  • New chief scientist, Katherine Calvine, wants NASA to be about climate science, no just space
  • Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
  • Predator species help to buffer climate change impacts on biodiversity
  • Half this year’s little penguin chicks on WA’s Penguin Island wiped out as colony dwindles
  • Conservation groups sue regulators, pharmaceutical company over crab pens
  • Gabon minister suspends shrimp fishery and expels purse seiner that tormented two humpback whales
  • 93-year-old nature-lover donates the island he protected for decades
  • Lawsuit challenges Point Reyes Ranching, Elk-Killing plan
  • New Mexico releases Wildlife Corridors Action Plan
  • Prince Williams seeks nominees for $1 million Earthshot prize
  • China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature
  • Australian researchers baffled as endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens breed outside season
  • More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
  • Snow Leopard at Illionois Zoo dies after contracting Covid
  • World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time
  • NY governor backs nation’s first statewide gas ban
  • Anubis, the Mexican gray wolf, was shot and killed
  • 'Highly unusual': new species of earthworm discovered in Broken Hill, Australia
  • New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis
  • In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change
  • By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean
  • A jaguar refuge in Mexico is an ecological island in the midst of threats
  • Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar
  • Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation
  • Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms
  • Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)
  • Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest
  • Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters
  • In untangling a taxonomic web, Sri Lankan researchers describe seven new jumping spiders
  • 1st Images Of Tonga Damage Show Entire Communities Covered In Thick Ash
  • "Federal Pipeline Agency Shifts Focus To Cut Methane"
  • "China's Coal Production Hit Record Levels in 2021"
  • 150 Ex-EPA Staffers Ask Virginia Lawmakers To Oppose Wheeler Nomination
  • "DOT To Allot $27B To Fix Bridges, Ensure Climate Resilience"
  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change
  • "Plastic Crisis Needs Binding Treaty, Report Says"
  • "Science Is Trying To Conserve The Monarch Butterfly’s Forests"
  • "Elephants Dying From Eating Plastic Waste in Sri Lankan Dump"
  • Big Discovery Beneath Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony
  • "Drinking Water, Ash Big Concern As Tonga Assesses Damage After Tsunami"
  • "Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons Of Diesel Near New Orleans"
  • "Clean Water Act Policy Could Spur Widespread Disarray"
  • "Finland, Sweden And Norway To Cull Wolf Population"
  • "Supreme Court Shot-Or-Test Rule Freeze Hits Agency Powers"
  • "Biden Nominates Climate Champ As Fed’s Bank Cop"
  • "Lead Ammo Hampers The Bald Eagle Rebound in the Northeast US"
  • "Scottish Auction For Offshore Windfarm Permits Expected To Raise £860m"
  • "Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon Gold Seeps Into Supply Chains"
  • "Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger."
  • "US Plans $50B Wildfire Fight Where Forests Meet Civilization"
  • "Interior Reveals Plans For Orphan Well Cleanup"
  • Ecuador Expands Protections Around Galápagos, Makes Highway For Sea Life
  • "How Coal Holds On In America"
  • How Utility Convinced Georgia to Let It Bury Toxic Waste in Groundwater
  • "Tightened Federal Water Protections Won’t Slow Some Projects"
  • "Inside The Effort To Uncage A Bipartisan Wildlife Bill"
  • "Power Companies Back EPA Climate Authority At Supreme Court"
  • "Here’s What Scientists Know About the Tonga Volcano Eruption"
  • "What Do You Do With An Invasive Army Of Crayfish Clones?"
  • US plans $50B wildfire fight where forests meet suburbia
  • New lizard species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Scientists discover tarantula-killing worms: New parasite named after actor Jeff Daniels
  • Amid Pandemic, Tribal-Run Conservation in Africa Proves Resilient
  • We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says
  • As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change
  • Pesticides released into Brazil’s Amazon to degrade rainforest and facilitate deforestation
  • In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure
  • As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout
  • For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)
  • ‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions
  • ‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand
  • Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests
  • In Sri Lanka, a wild cat thrives in the unlikely urban jungle of Colombo
  • In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods
  • Bare-faced curassows return to Argentina’s Iberá after 50-year absence
  • Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report
  • 7 Latin American primate species among the 25 most endangered in the world
  • A new species of tarantula discovered by Thai YouTube star
  • "Biden Resets BBB: ‘I Think We Can Break The Package Up’"
  • "Committee OKs Wildlife Bill, But Partisan Divisions Remain"
  • 450+ Scientists Call On PR Firms To Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Clients
  • Winter Gas Bill From Hell: Oklahomans Face Paying $1.4Bn Over Snowstorm
  • "What Canada Wants To Do With Its Decades-Old Pileup Of Nuclear Waste"
  • "National Monument Proposed For Nevada Site Sacred To Tribes"
  • "After Rain Burst, California Salmon Reclaim Old Spawnaing Grounds"
  • Corps To Focus On Supply Chain, Climate Change With $14B In Spending
  • Florida’s Red Tides Worsened by Pollution, Climate Change
  • Exxon Using An Unusual Law To Intimidate Critics Over Its Climate Denial
  • Gators fouled by diesel spill get a scrubbing, teeth cleaned
  • Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti
  • Oregon Zoo has first California Condor egg of 2022
  • Haven’t been seen for 25 years – rains bring salmon back to California streams
  • Asiatic cheetah Homino spotted in Bafgh for 1st time in years
  • Seeing 1,000 glorious fin whales back from near extinction is a rare glimmer of hope
  • ‘Rural women in Zimbabwe are in constant contact with climate change’: Q&A with Shamiso Mupara
  • At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero
  • Study finds resilient, frequent-fire forests have far fewer trees
  • "‘Build Back Better’ Hit a Wall, but Climate Action Could Move Forward"
  • VP Harris To Announce Wildfire Money In Visit To California On Friday
  • New Research Shows Health Risks to Children Mount as Temperatures Rise
  • "White House Tees Up Historic $1B Everglades Funding"
  • "A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway."
  • "Peru: 21 Beaches Polluted By Spill Linked To Tonga Eruption"
  • Iowa, Texas GOPers Brag on Biden Infrastructure Bill They Opposed
  • Report IDs Big Box Stores as Opportunity for Rooftop Solar
  • "Bipartisan Lawmakers Announce Climate Adaptation Bill"
  • Explorers Discover Pristine Coral Reef That Could Hold Climate Lessons
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Conservation News ~ 14 January 2022

1/14/2022

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  • "Biden Consoles Residents in Fire-Ravaged Colorado"
  • "Canada’s New Environment Minister Talks Climate — And Compromise"
  • "Senate Plans Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Vote This Week"
  • Biden Faces Delays In Undoing Trump’s War On Efficient Appliances
  • "‘Drastic’ Rise In High Arctic Lightning Has Scientists Worried"
  • "Hunters Kill 20 Yellowstone Wolves That Roamed Out Of Park"
  • "Road Salt Works. But It’s Also Bad for the Environment."
  • "Cryptocurrency Plan Fails For Manchin-Connected Coal Plant"
  • "The Western Megadrought Is Revealing America's 'Lost National Park'"
  • "Dank, Ancient And Quite Fantastic: Scotland’s Peat Bogs Breathe Again"
  • 4 new species of algae you've probably seen and didn't even realize it     
  • As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal
  • Two new species of flower flies discovered
  • Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn
  • Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet
  • Indonesia aims for sustainable fish farming with ‘aquaculture villages’
  • ‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas
  • Tom Lovejoy’s enduring legacy to the planet
  • Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia
  • U.S. greenhouse gas emissions jumped in 2021, a threat to climate goals
  • "2021 Was Earth’s Fifth-Hottest Year, Scientists Say"
  • "Hurricane Ida, Europe Floods Made 2021 Costly For Disasters"
  • U.S. Emissions Surged In 2021, Pushing Nation Off Its Climate Targets
  • "U.S. Aims To Double Cover Crop Planting To Address Climate Change"
  • "Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew"
  • "U.S. Supreme Court Leaves In Place Limits On Higher-Ethanol Fuel Blend"
  • "Biden Administration To Scrap Trump Plan For Wider Alaska Oil Drilling"
  • Lakes Are Losing Their Ice Cover Faster Than Ever — What That Means
  • "The Great Siberian Thaw"
  • "Rare Snowy Owl Soars Over Washington, Thrills Crowds"
  • Climate crisis: last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows
  • Cars are about to get 3 billion tons cleaner
  • In Panama, a tiny rainfrog named after Greta Thunberg endures
  • Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns
  • Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says
  • The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste
  • Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)
  • Foreign capital, blamed for depleting Indonesia’s fish stocks, is set to return
  • Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted
  • ‘I feel obligated to protect them’: A lifelong love affair with Guinea-Bissau’s turtles
  • In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River
  • Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers
  • Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time
  • Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills
  • New atlas illuminates impact of artificial light in the ocean at night
  • Fighting a Chile mining project with science: Q&A with biologist Maritza Sepúlveda
  • New species of deepwater soft coral discovered west of Scotland
  • "EPA Moves To Crack Down On Dangerous Coal Ash Storage Ponds"
  • "White House Plan Aims To Protect Science From Politics"
  • "US Navy To Drain Hawaii Tank System Blamed For Tainted Water"
  • Warming Permafrost Puts Key Arctic Pipelines, Roads At Risk: Study
  • DOE Blew $1.1B on Carbon Capture Projects That Were Mostly Failures: GAO
  • "Biden Spending Bill Ignites Debate Over Dairy Methane Pollution"
  • "Ghost Flights Are Polluting the Skies Thanks to Omicron"
  • EPA To Assess Impact On Endangered Species Before Approving Pesticides
  • "Stirring Up Lead Dust In NYC Housing"
  • Fashion Industry May Finally Face Accountability for Its Toxic Footprint
  • Oil production or carbon neutrality? Why not both, Guyana says
  • As Indonesia retakes land from developers, conservation is an afterthought
  • Guinea-Bissau turtle hatchery addresses unusual problem of too many eggs
  • Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)
  • As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high
  • Wyoming governor asks feds to remove grizzly bears from endangered species list
  • Extremely rare 'rainbow-like' blanket octopus spotted in the wild on Great Barrier Reef
  • "EPA To Review Rules For Largest Source Of Lead In Air"
  • "Biden To Hold Wind Power Auction Off New York, New Jersey Coast"
  • "Hottest Ocean Temperatures In History Recorded Last Year"
  • In Orlando, A Mountain Of Coal Ash Evades EPA Rules. One of Many.
  • "An Alabama Town’s Sewage Woes Test Biden’s Infrastructure Ambitions"
  • "EPA OKs Weedkiller ‘Cocktail’ With New Wildlife Protections"
  • "On the Defensive a Year Ago, the American Petroleum Institute Is Back"
  • Powell Says Climate Stress Tests Likely A 'Key Tool Going Forward'
  • "No English River Is Free From Pollution - Parliament Report"
  • "Here’s How Climate Change and Covid Are Transforming Skiing"
  • Motorists Kill Two Nēnē At Haleakalā National Park
  • Two new species of freshwater goby fish discovered in the Philippines
  • "The Heat Stays On: Earth Hits 6th Warmest Year On Record"
  • The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Efforts to Protect the Environment
  • "The US 'Megadrought' Sets Another Stunning Record"
  • "Still No Penalties for Coastal GasLink Environmental Violations"
  • "How California Plans To Spend $37 Billion Fighting Climate Change"
  • Six in 10 Americans ‘Alarmed’ Or ‘Concerned’ About Climate Change: Study
  • Plants At Risk Of Extinction As Climate Disrupts Animal Migration
  • "Postal Service: Here’s The Price Tag For 100% EVs"
  • "Manatee Feeding Experiment Starts Slowly As Cold Looms"
  • "CDC Warns Americans: Don’t Kiss Or Snuggle Your Bearded Dragon"
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Conservation News ~ 7 January 2022

1/7/2022

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  • "Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan"
  • "Ormat Nevada Geothermal Project Approval Before a Federal Judge"
  • "Hawaii Upholds Order Requiring Navy To Drain Fuel Tanks"
  • "Famed Fossil Hunter And Conservationist Richard Leakey Dies At 77"
  • "Jackpile Mine Toxic Legacy Continues At Laguna Pueblo"
  • "Changing Climate Parches Afghanistan, Exacerbating Poverty"
  • "EPA To Require More Facilities To Report Releases Of Carcinogenic Gas"
  • Jump in Deforestation Of World's Most Biodiverse Savanna Alarms Scientists
  • "Advocates Call EPA 'Forever Chemical' Testing Announcement Insufficient"
  • "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On"
  • "Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires"
  • Ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, Who Urged Preserving Amazon Rainforest, Dies
  • "E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92"
  • "Solar Power Projects See The Light on Former Appalachian Coal Land"
  • "Powerful Methane Cloud Seen by Satellite Came From Georgia Pipe"
  • "Germany Shuts Down Half Of Its 6 Remaining Nuclear Plants"
  • In Most Polluted SF Neighborhood, Polluters Operated Without Permits
  • "China Fires Up Giant Coal Power Plant In Face Of Calls For Cuts"
  • "As Its Topsoil Washes Away, The Corn Belt Is Losing Yields — And Carbon"
  • "This Tree Has Stood Here For 500 Years. Will It Be Sold For $17,500?"
  • Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’ that depends on deeper understanding of animals’ lives
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Tucson Shovel-Nosed Snakes Under Endangered Species Act
  • Giant New Species of Begonia Discovered in Tibet
  • New species of crustacean named after internationally acclaimed writer Andrzej Stasiuk
  • New Species of Orchids Discovered in Sichuan, China
  • Researchers discover two new species of rare wasp
  • 5 new species of reptiles identified in Iran
  • Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
  • More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows
  • E.O. Wilson’s last dream
  • Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes
  • Rare turtles keep washing up on Cape Cod. “Turtle movers” fly them to Texas
  • A new species of glow-in-the-dark shark has been discovered in New Zealand
  • Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber
  • In round 2 of Philippine geothermal project, tribes dig in for a greater say
  • As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon
  • Dual pressures of hunting, logging threaten wildlife in Myanmar, study shows
  • Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter
  • Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others
  • China’s building spree in Nepal casts shadow over Himalayan ecosystem
  • Court order blocks Shell’s seismic surveys off South Africa’s Wild Coast
  • Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts
  • Burnt pellets complicate impact of plastic spill off Sri Lanka, study finds
  • Agricultural frontier advances in Nicaraguan biosphere reserve
  • Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021
  • Mongabay’s 10 most popular posts of 2021
  • How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?
  • New shrews just dropped: Sulawesi yields up 14 freshly described species
  • NASA-NOAA Tech Will Aid Marine Oil Spill Response
  • Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. 2022 Trouble Looms
  • "Regulatory Fight Looms Over First-Ever Air Toxics Addition"
  • "US Judge Blocks Work At Nevada Geothermal Plant For 90 Days"
  • "Federal Report IDs New Carcinogens"
  • "Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic"
  • PG&E Power Line Sparked The Nearly Million-Acre Dixie Fire: Probe
  • "What To Watch At DOE, FERC, Interior in 2022"
  • "Six Hot Topics For Climate Change And Nature Policy In 2022"
  • "Off-Season 'Cover' Crops Expand As U.S. Growers Eye Low-Carbon Future"
  • "The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Island"
  • Florida's Panama City Crayfish Protected Under Endangered Species Act
  • Researchers Discover New Species Of Wasp-like Flower Flies
  • New species of catfish discovered in Milak river
  • Indonesia’s Womangrove collective reclaims the coast from shrimp farms
  • Podcast: Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness
  • In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss
  • Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’
  • Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability
  • For species on the very brink of extinction, cloning is a loaded last resort
  • Light-fingered monkeys threaten critically endangered Príncipe thrush
  • In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities
  • In Indonesia’s Sulawesi, a community works to defuse blast-fishing crisis
  • Community control of forests hasn’t slowed deforestation, Indonesia study finds
  • More Zoom, less climate gloom as conferences move online, study finds
  • As temperatures rise, so does risk of kidney disease, study finds
  • Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology
  • "Va. Governor-Elect Taps Trump EPA Chief For Key Post"
  • "EPA's Failure To Disclose Chemical Health Risk Draws Ire"
  • EPA Prevented Staff From Warning Public About Widely Used Carcinogen
  • Biden Administration Eyes Wind Leases Off California’s Coast
  • "This Vast Wildfire Lab Is Helping Foresters Prepare for a Hotter Planet"
  • N Dakota Judge Rules 1000s Of Disputed DAPL Documents Are Public Records
  • "Panel Probes Trump Aide Over NPS Permit For Jan. 6 Rally"
  • "Texas Enacts Nation’s Strongest Flood Disclosure Law"
  • Charges Dropped Against Journalists Arrested on Wet’suwet’en Territory
  • "6 Big Environmental Stories to Watch in 2022"
  • Amazing new species discovered include 'ghost' orchid and 'exploding fireworks' flower
  • Leonardo 'Tree' Caprio: new species named after star
  • Warmer, oxygen-poor waters threaten world’s ‘most heavily exploited’ fish
  • ‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean
  • "Biden To Tour Damage From Colorado's Most Destructive Wildfire"
  • "Virginia Democrats Aim to Block Trump’s EPA Chief From State Agency"
  • Over 40% of Americans Live In Counties Hit By Climate Disasters In 2021
  • Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the U.S.?
  • Interior: US Has Twice As Many Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells As Was Thought
  • "First Advanced Reactor Proposal Suffers Setback"
  • "Monarch Butterfly Conservation Efforts Improve. Are They Enough?"
  • "Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen"
  • "Groups File Complaint Against Water Utility Over Lead Pipes"
  • In the Year of the Electric Truck, Some Real Talk from Texas Auto Dealers
  • US becomes world’s top exporter of liquified natural gas
  • Lawsuit launched to protect imperiled Kirtland’s snake
  • California adopts drought rules outlawing water wasting with fines of up to $500
  • Goldman Sachs announces commitment to set 2030 emissions reduction targets
  • Bennet ‘deeply concerned’ about oil trains in Colorado as feds approve Utah project
  • Airborne DNA used to detect insect species in breakthrough for ecologists
  • England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land
  • Embracing a wetter future, the Dutch turn to floating homes
  • Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5C
  • Tucson shovel-nosed snake weeds Endangered Species Act protection
  • China switched on its nuclear fusion device
  • American National Parks reckon with record-smashing year
  • Monarch population soars 4,900 percent since last year in thrilling 2021 western migration
  • Law change allows wild birds to be killed to protect game birds in England
  • Jaguar released in Argentina to help endangered species
  • India saw record 126 tiger deaths in 2021
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