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Conservation News ~ 26 March 2021

3/26/2021

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  • New species of shrimp discovered in south London aquarium
  • "Clean Water Act: Trump Rule Imperils More Than 40,000 Waterways"
  • Bankruptcy Judge Lets Blackjewel Shed Coal Mine Cleanup Duties
  • "Tracking the Invisible Killer"
  • NOAA Warns Of Water Cutbacks, Fires, And Low Reservoirs Amid Drought
  • "Obama NOAA Leader Joins Biden White House In Climate Role"
  • "How The Infrastructure Bill Might Tackle Climate Change"
  • "FERC Makes Major Shift On Pipeline Co2 Emissions"
  • "China, U.S. To Work On Climate, Beijing Says After Rancorous Meeting"
  • "U.S. Army Corps Suspends Wetlands Permit For Polymet Copper Mine"
  • "Florida Bans Nonnative Species Despite Industry Outcry"
  • Mural shows earliest known record of salt being sold at a marketplace in the Maya region
  • Climate fight 'is undermined by social media's toxic reports
  • Canadian Conservative party votes not to recognize climate crisis as real
  • "Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy"
  • "Indigenous Anti-Dam Activist Killed In Honduras"
  • Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To Obama Marine Monument Designation
  • Interior Reverses Course On Tribal Ownership Of Portion Of Missouri R.
  • "EPA Deal With Alabama Polluter Undercuts Biden Equity Pledge"
  • "FOIA Docs Raise Questions About Interference In Wind Project"
  • "White House Yanks Interior Nominee After Murkowski Opposition"
  • 1000s Evacuated In Australia's Worst Flooding In Almost Half A Century
  • Trump’s Parting Gift to St. Croix: One of America’s Largest Refineries
  • "The ‘Old American Dream,’ a Trap As the Floods Keep Coming"
  • Necropsy of Endangered False Killer Whale Found Stranded off Maui Reveals Dietary First
  • White House appoints Jane Lubchenco to key climate change role
  • BREAKING: CHARGES AGAINST NICK TILSEN AND LAND DEFENDERS DROPPED, NDN COLLECTIVE CELEBRATES A VICTORY FOR THE MOVEMENT
  • Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction
  • More than 10 million people displaced by climate disasters in six months, report finds
  • Montana Governor Given Written Warning After Trapping, Killing Of Yellowstone Wolf
  • Lawsuit Seeks to Reinstate Protections on 3.4 Million Acres of Critical Northern Spotted Owl Habitat
  • Thriving population of endangered monkeys gives hope to conservationists
  • New Species of Rafflesia Discovered in Malaysia
  • Study calls for a marine reserve in a $500m fishing hotspot in Indonesia
  • In a first, US pipeline agency weighs climate change impacts
  • Study looks at covering California’s canals with solar panels
  • In Indonesia, an illegal leopard trade thrives out of sight, new study shows
  • Guarani Indigenous men brutalized in Brazilian ‘expansion of violence’
  • Oil palm growers’ misdeeds allow an opportunity to save West Papua’s forests
  • 81 Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders slam BlackRock in open letter
  • In Indonesia, an illegal leopard trade thrives out of sight, new study shows
  • Managing risk: How Sri Lankan farmers address climate threats
  • Thriving population of endangered monkeys gives hope to conservationists
  • Porsche’s Carbon Neutrality Plan Goes Beyond Electric Cars
  • Two new species of already-endangered screech owls discovered in Amazon rainforest
  • New Chameleon Species Discovered in Ethiopia
  • "E.P.A. to Review Attacks on Science Under Trump"
  • Senate Dems Plan To Use Review Act To Reinstate Obama Methane Rule
  • Did Chemical Company Misrepresent Data To Avoid Making A Safer Product?
  • Line 3: "Need For Disputed Pipeline Argued In Minnesota Appeals Court"
  • Big Banks’ Trillion-Dollar Finance For Fossil Fuels ‘Shocking’ — Report
  • "Conservationists Sue To Save Spotted Owl Logging Protections"
  • "Proposed Rules Threaten To Derail Kan. Wind Industry"
  • "Politics: Republicans Won't 'Take The Bait' On Infrastructure"
  • "'Buyer Beware': Ads Hide PFAS Cookware Risks"
  • In Conservation Success Story, Bald Eagle Numbers Have Soared
  • World's Small Wild Cats Get A Major Conservation Boost
  • Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent
  • Humpback whales are organizing in huge numbers, and no one knows why
  • WildEarth Guardians and our allies have just scored another BIG COURT WIN over a massive coal mine expansion, this time near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah
  • Palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests and peatland
  • African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List
  • Two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally, NGO says
  • New protein helps carnivorous plants sense and trap their prey
  • Global aquaculture has grown more sustainable over past 20 years
  • Port Of Long Beach Uses Electricity To Reach Zero Emissions Goal
  • Six international organizations join forces to create the Mediterranean Consortium to Protect Biodiversity.
  • High impact, small scale with MARPLASTICCs projects: the results of circular economy work in the fight against plastic pollution
  • School students discover four new species of wasp
  • Reforested areas rival mutual forests in securing water
  • Patagonia’s blue whale besieged by hundreds of boats
  • Extremely rare orchid tricks horny beetles into carrying its pollen
  • Two bonobos adopted infants outside their group, marking a first for great apes
  • Endangered dolphins are different species
  • Group urges Atlantic seafloor to be labeled a memorial to slave trading
  • Pennsylvania plans to generate 50% of government building energy through solar
  • 60 largest banks in the world have invested $3.8 trillion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement
  • California’s diesel emissions rules reduce air pollution, protect vulnerable communities
  • Reps introduce The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act
  • State proposal aims to save Washington State Forests for carbon storage, not logging
  • Poland to resume some logging in ancient Bialowieza forest
  • Conservationists sue to save spotted owl logging protection
  • Bald Eagle numbers have soared
  • UK seeks to drill more oil and gas from North Sea
  • Amazon destruction linked to the largest belt of algae on the planet
  • Green groups file first-of-its-kind FTC complaint against Chevron for climate lies
  • House votes to protect millions of acres of wilderness and other public lands in sweeping legislation
  • The  EPA’s climate change website is back
  • Oceans helped absorb CFCs, they’re now going to emit them back out
  • Corporate climate pledges earn failing grades from investors
  • New basalt type discovered beneath the ocean, Off-road vehicles to be banned at Oceano Dunes within three years
  • Alberta NDP proposes legislation to ban coal mining in Rocky Mountains
  • New species of shrimp found after “hitchhiking” on ocean rock to south London museum
  • Study maps climate potential of letting forests be
  • In the Pacific, Global Warming disrupted the ecological dance of urchins, se stars, and kelp
  • Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
  • Plan to uproot 100,000 trees in Limpopo’sacrilege’ says baobab expert
  • Father-daughter duo discovers new aquatic organisms
  • New species of diatoms discovered in Mula River
  • Killer of critically endangered Christmas Island Reptile identified
  • US continues to ship illegal plastic waste to developing countries
  • Study finds glyphosate in more than half of all sampled Florida Manatees
  • Change to river flows are having a ‘damming’ impact on platypuses
  • Hong Kong’s fragile coral reefs boosted by 3d printing
  • Indonesian eco-warrior turns arid hills green
  • Florida bans nonnative species despite industry outcry
  • Unspecified number of Ishasha tree-climbing lions die of suspected poisoning
  • Genetic scalpel invented for microalgae to efficiently turn CO2 into biofuel
  • New species of dendrobium orchid found in Indonesia
  • Endangered, rare otter pups debut at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
  • Recent events prove wolves need federal Endangered Species Act protections
  • Tropical snakes disappear as fungal outbreak decimates their prey
  • EV’s are going racing at the 2021 Mint 400
  • Endangered bird has forgotten its song
  • Reddit’s GameStop investors have donated over $350,000 to gorilla conservation
  • Forest pesticides found downstream in coastal Oregon waters
  • Activist on hunger strike in Canada calls on government to halt logging
  • Particulates are more dangerous than previously thought
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Conservation News ~ 19 March 2021

3/19/2021

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  • Mexican Gray Wolf Numbers Rose to 186 in 2020
  • Mexico spurns endangered porpoise, may seek to blame US
  • Regal new raptor-like dinosaur, complete with feathers, discovered in Spain
  • Newly named ant species has a Missouri S&T connection
  • Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
  • Scaling up tree nurseries is key to unlocking U.S. reforestation potential: Study
  • When a tree falls in the forest, it’s the birds that don’t make a sound, study finds
  • Rare black jaguars caught on camera in Panama
  • Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon
  • Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction
  • Amid South China Sea dispute, Philippines’ Palawan is besieged by political split
  • Fossil Fuels Are Wildly More Expensive Than Previously Thought, Study Says
  • New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions
  • Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)
  • Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo
  • Pig nest-building promotes tree diversity in tropical forest: Study
  • Countries Tried to Curb Trade in Plastic Waste. The US Is Shipping More
  • Environmental Justice Plays Key Role in Biden Covid-19 Stimulus Package
  • "Western States Chart Diverging Paths As Water Shortages Loom"
  • "A 'Poster Child' For Policy Failure: Will EPA Ban Asbestos?"
  • Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight Rising Sea?
  • Texas GOP Lawmakers Push Bill To Punish Fossil Fuel Disinvestments
  • "Is the ‘Legacy’ Carbon Credit Market a Climate Plus or Just Hype?"
  • "Contaminated Aquarium Moss Balls May Unleash a Zebra Mussel Plague"
  • "Climate Change: 'Forever Plant' Seagrass Faces Uncertain Future"
  • "Wild Population Of Endangered Mexican Wolves Keeps Growing"
  • Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
  • Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years'
  • Other States Seek to Emulate Wisconsin’s Wolf Massacre
  • Indigenous People Not Invited to UN Biodiversity Talks
  • Nonprofit moves forward with lawsuit to protect Hawaiian honeycreeper
  • Philadelphia calls for 'lights out' after skyscrapers cause hundreds of bird deaths
  • World’s oldest forest found in New York state​
  • COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts - IUCN publication
  • VIRGINIA JUST BECAME THE 4TH STATE TO BAN COSMETIC ANIMAL TESTING
  • Argentina's Environment Minister: "We have to demand climate finance"
  • Secrets Of Humanity’s Closest Hibernating Relative Could Pave Way For Space Flight And Surgery
  • Deb Haaland confirmed to lead Interior in historic vote
  • Wildlife Rescuers Saved A Baby Orangutan Named Bomban From Life In A Tiny Cage
  • No evidence Covid leaked from a lab but probably emerged from wildlife trade, say WHO scientists
  • State Habitat Restoration Project Breaks Ground at Southern End of Salton Sea
  • "New E.P.A. Head Says Agency Has Climate Regulations Underway"
  • Biden To Name Former DC Solicitor To Lead DOJ Environmental Division
  • Congress Launches Probe Into Multibillion-Dollar 'Clean Coal' Tax Credit
  • CDC Identifies Trump Health Guidance That Downplayed Pandemic Severity
  • "SEC To Weigh Requiring Further Climate Disclosures To Investors"
  • "EPA Issues Interstate Air Pollution Rule Fix for Summer Ozone"
  • "Maryland Senate Passes Climate Act By Wide Margin"
  • "Redlined, Now Flooding"
  • Cold War Ice Core Reveals Greenland Was Recently Ice-Free
  • Males give up on trying to attract females when they are in poor condition, study finds
  • Hong Kong Architects Convert Plastic Waste into Public Benches to Combat Pollution
  • An ‘Eco-Friendly’ Danish Company Is Outsourcing Pollution to West Virginia, Locals Say
  • Champions of French social housing win the 'Nobel of architecture' with a mantra of: "Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!"
  • GameStop Redditors are using their stock winnings to adopt gorillas
  • Extinct Guam Kingfisher Provides Blueprint For Reintroducing Other Long-Lost Animals
  • "Chevron Faces an FTC Complaint Over Greenwashing"
  • "The Rock Standing in the Way of China’s Climate Ambitions: Coal"
  • State AGs Challenge Trump-Era Rollback Of Energy Efficiency Standards
  • As Arctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Maximum, Concern Grows Over Polar Ice Loss
  • Natural But Deadly: Huge Gaps in US Rules For Wood-Stove Smoke Exposed
  • "First Microwave-Powered Home Boiler Could Help Cut Emissions"
  • NOAA’s Tsunami Sensors Went Down Before Anniversary Of Japan Disaster
  • "Biden’s DOJ Environment Pick Has Extensive Litigation Record"
  • "As Endangered Birds Lose Their Songs, They Can’t Find Mates"
  • "Senators Strike Early Bipartisan Tone On Infrastructure"
  • Endangered bats are target of federal forest program in Pennsylvania
  • JBS, other Brazil meatpackers linked to devastating Pantanal fires, Greenpeace says
  • Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings
  • King Coal: How Indonesia became the fossil fuel’s final frontier
  • Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands
  • As Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss: Studies
  • Scientists Find New Invasive Mosquito Species In Florida
  • New plant species found in Chittoor
  • Endangered whales having a baby boom off East Coast
  • One of the Nation’s Largest Pipelines Caused the Biggest Spill in Decades–And We’re Just Hearing About It
  • Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say
  • Extinct Guam Kingfisher Provides Blueprint For Reintroducing Other Long-Lost Animals
  • Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf Found Dead in Arizona
  • Feeding cattle seaweed reduces their greenhouse gas emissions 82 percent
  • New species of mint family found in northern Myanmar
  • Global warming helps invasive species flourish - study models likely combined effects on ecosystems
  • Electric Semi Trucks Are Actually Cheaper Per Mile Than Diesel Trucks, Report Finds
  • CHINA IS ROLLING OUT AN ENORMOUS “WEATHER MODIFICATION” SYSTEM
  • “Astonishing reduction” in bird habitats found in Colombia
  • Biden Administration Wants Financial Sector To Face Up To Climate Risk
  • "New EPA Chief Michael Regan Vows Assault on Environmental Injustice"
  • Last Texas Utility Commissioner Resigns After Leaked Call Pledging Profits
  • Low-income and Latino Neighborhoods Endure More Extreme Heat in SW
  • "EV Turning Point: Momentum Builds for US Electric Vehicle Transition"
  • "Revealed: Seafood Fraud Happening On A Vast Global Scale"
  • Company Wants To Mine Gold Near Death Valley. Tribes Are Fighting It
  • Geoengineering: 8 States Are Tweaking The Weather (It Might Not Work)
  • "'Environmental Racism'? Tenn. Pipeline Sparks Uproar"
  • Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent
  • How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
  • Elizabeth Warren and AOC Lay Down Climate Challenge to Biden
  • Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
  • Female wild bonobos provide care for infants outside their social group
  • Deforestation in Indonesia hits record low, but experts fear a rebound
  • Wildfire smoke canceled out clean air gains in 2020
  • Thailand says $11m seized in wildlife trafficking sting
  • The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act was just reintroduced into Congress
  • Two men bust for huge abalone haul, forfeit Land Rover to the state
  • Rhino poacher gets 18 years imprisonment
  • Kew Gardens director hits back at claims it is ‘growing woke’
  • Feds say manatees weren’t endangered – now they’re dying in droves
  • Gigantic stone ‘tiger stripes’ etched across Ethiopia pose an ancient mystery
  • Endangered Gazelles make a comeback on the edge of a war zone
  • Seventeen ‘extinct’ European plant species found alive
  • 70 orcas target young blue whale in four-hour killing orgy of WA coast
  • A Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss
  • Nestle and Unilever demand that EU outlaw caged eggs
  • Old-growth logging continues as BCs commitments to change slip
  • Food waste could power the jet engines we’re currently flying with
  • Congressman floats $33B plan to demolish four dams
  • Greenland’s ice melted away at least once in last million years
  • Study finds plants would grow well in solar cell greenhouses
  • Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings
  • Half the country is now considering right to repair laws
  • Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard
  • Everglades poised for a phenomenal wading bird season with right water balance
  • Neanderthals helped create early human art
  • Opponents suspect environmental racism in pipeline project
  • No elephants poached in Mana Pools National Park
  • Model predicts urban development and greenhouses gasses will fuel urban floods
  • Neanderthals may have hibernated – this could hold a key to space travel
  • Elon Musk’s Tesla lobbied UK to raise tax on petrol and diesel
  • Elk management in Montana shows the blind spots of our North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
  • Microbes unknown to science discovered on the International Space Station
  • Many deep-sea microbes invisible to Mammalian Immune System
  • US lawyer Steven Donziger speaks from House Arrest in NYC after suing Chevron for Amazon Oil spills
  • Oaks adapt drought resistance to local conditions
  • Arctic walrus takes a nap on an iceberg, wakes up in Ireland
  • Ancient Earth really was a serene water world
  • UF students protest future McCarty Woods development
  • Black-throated Trogon comprises five species
  • BC scientists discover potential new mushroom species on Garry Oak roots
  • Endangered newborn foal makes debut at Florida zoo
  • Experts race to save Chinese white dolphin spotted in south China river
  • Texas cold stun of 2021 was largest sea turtle rescue in history
  • Bitcoin’s jawdropping energy consumption rivals London
  • China no longer requires animal testing on most imported cosmetics
  • Wolf collared in Banff killed in US after sudden 500-kilometre migration to Montana
  • Washington Supreme Court grants case arguing state forests must be managed for ‘all the people’
  • Developer agrees to halt work, temporarily, near San Marcos Foothills Preserve
  • Judge rules in favor of Coastal Commission in Los Cerritos Wetlands case
  • First-ever study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggest the forest is worsening climate change
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Conservation News ~ 12 March 2021

3/12/2021

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  • "Senate Energy Panel Backs Haaland For Interior Secretary"
  • High Court: Barrett's First Ruling Hands Feds A Win In EPA Records Feud
  • After Backing Green Building Codes, Local Governments Lose Right To Vote
  • "Energy Dept To Restart Obama-Era Loans To Renewable Energy Companies"
  • Biden Hosts Congress Members To Talk Infrastructure, Funding
  • Energy Transitions: 'It's Gigantic': Battery Storage Grows Exponentially
  • "The World’s Largest Intact Forest Is In Danger. Here’s How To Save It."
  • Utilities Gearing Up to Install EV Charging Stations Across 16 States
  • "More Than 50 Companies Have Vowed To Be Carbon-Neutral By 2040"
  • "Butterfly Numbers Plummeting In US West As Climate Crisis Takes Toll"
  • Royal Caracal Cats Now ‘Critically Endangered’ In India
  • Scientists Discover an 81-Year-Old Snapper
  • Countries to consider ground-breaking change to economic reporting that includes natural capital
  • 450 butterfly species rapidly declining due to warmer autumns in the western U.S.
  • Completely new species of firefly discovered in Singapore
  • "Supreme Court Records Ruling Spurs FOIA Reform Push"
  • Use of Disinfectants Has Soared, Sparking New Scrutiny Of Ingredients
  • Trump-Emboldened Extremists Could Spell Trouble For Biden Interior Dept.
  • Study Finds Wildfire Smoke Harms Humans More Than Pollution From Cars
  • "Huge Louisiana Coastal Project Receives Positive Report From The Corps"
  • Civilian Climate Corps Is a Government Plan That All Americans Can Back
  • "Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food"
  • "PFAS In Pesticides: 'A Problem Of Epic Proportions'"
  • As Biden Woos Both Labor And Greens On Climate, Pipelines May Divide Them
  • "US States Look To Step Up Wolf Kills, Pushed By Republicans"
  • Biden Reverses Trump-Era Gutting of Migratory Bird Protections
  • Interior Nears OK For First US Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Project
  • "Journalists Face Record Levels Of Persecution Globally"
  • Big Oil May Want Carbon Tax, But Biden and GOPers Not So Much
  • Biden FDA Nears Limiting Toxic Heavy Metals In Commercial Baby Foods
  • "White House’s Reworked Climate Metric Draws Lawsuit from States"
  • "Caribbean Refinery To Test Biden's Promises On Poverty And Pollution"
  • "Sen. Barrasso Backs Murkowski After Trump Targets Her"
  • "For Planet Earth, No Tourism is a Curse and a Blessing"
  • World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies
  • Wolves will be wolves, so manage the humans
  • More than 100 Griffon Vultures pairs in the Eastern Rhodopes
  • "Schumer Moves To Break GOP Holds On Haaland"
  • 'Climate Time Bomb': 370+ Groups Urge Biden to Halt Line 3 Pipeline
  • GOP Favorite Study Trashes Biden's Climate Plans – But Who's Behind It?
  • Plant Emits HFC-23 That Does More Climate Damage Than All City Cars
  • Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Environmental Legacy
  • "The $21 Billion Reason to Clean Up Abandoned Oil Wells"
  • "New Research Shows Just How Many Fish Are Eating Plastic"
  • "Florida’s Flood Disclosure Rules Leave Homebuyers in the Dark"
  • "Biden DOJ Backs PennEast Gas Pipeline in Supreme Court Fight"
  • "Brood X Cicadas Are About To Put On One Of The Wildest Shows In Nature."
  • Physics undergraduate proposes solution to quantum field theory problem
  • 'Like a horror movie': Caterpillar silences tomato's cry for help, scientists find
  • Scientists Discover Chunk of Protoplanet Older Than Earth In Sahara Desert
  • Florida manatee deaths surge past 400 in first two months of 2021
  • ENMU Professor's Beetle Discovery Named After Three Legendary Bird Pokémon
  • "Senate Confirms Michael Regan To Lead EPA"
  • "Biden Delays Trump Changes To Lead And Copper Drinking Water Rule"
  • "Fish And Wildlife Service Under Trump Faulted For Lack Of Opinions"
  • "In New Oversight Role, Katie Porter Targets Oil Industry"
  • "‘There’s No Town Left’: Fukushima’s Eerie Landscapes"
  • Oil’s Fight to Roll Back Tribal Sovereignty After Supreme Court Decision
  • Arizona Legislature Resists Attempts To Protect Groundwater And Rivers
  • "Solar Storms Can Wreak Havoc. We Need Better Space Weather Forecasts"
  • Can DOE Store 50 Tons Of Weapons-Grade Plutonium For 10,000 Years?
  • "Saving The West’s Most Iconic Cactus From Climate Change"
  • Kern County approves plan to allow thousands of new oil wells despite environmental objections
  • Jaw-Dropping Fossil Find Contains a Dinosaur Sitting on an Entire Clutch of Eggs
  • Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars
  • Queensland passes laws banning 'killer' single-use plastics
  • Honolulu Charts a Path Away from Fossil Fuels
  • Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Rare Montana Plant           
  • Bill proposed to remove grizzlies from endangered species list
  • China environment minister urges crackdown on steel mills' illegal production
  • Newly identified extinct insect suborder includes new species from Driftwood Canyon
  • Hemiandrus jacinda: insect named after New Zealand prime minister
  • "Senate Advances Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland"
  • "Senators Strike Early Bipartisan Tone On Infrastructure"
  • "House Republicans May Follow Democrats In Rebooting Shamed 'Earmarks'"
  • Community, Enviros Sue CA County on Vote To Allow 1000s Of New Oil Wells
  • "In Swing Through Europe, John Kerry Aims To Boost Climate Action"
  • US Must Cut Emissions By Over 57% To Meet Paris Climate Target: Report
  • Trump Planned Logging in Yaak Valley; Greens Ask Biden For ‘Climate Refuge’
  • Overlooked: Indigenous People Could Lead Global Plan to Conserve Nature
  • Over 20 Countries Weakening Environmental Protection During Pandemic
  • Senate confirms Michael Regan as EPA chief
  • First Nations headdress stolen 15 years ago found in West Vancouver dumpster
  • Deep-sea roombas will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina
  • Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change
  • Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon
  • California proposes to transition away from toxic pesticides
  • Garnier is now officially a certified cruelty-free brand
  • US Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Fairbanks Four lawsuit
  • A Canadian Company upcycles millions of disposable chopsticks into sleek furniture and home goods
  • Mexico’s vast tree-planting program ended up encouraging deforestation
  • Critically endangered macademia species becomes a plant supermodel
  • Eastern black rail added to endangered species list in Florida
  • Missouri population of Eastern Hellbenders granted Endangered Species protection
  • China to push for building ‘Polar Sil Road’ in Arctic Ocean
  • Anglers find great white shark bonanza at whale carcass
  • Sea otters maintain remnants of healthy kelp forest amid sea urchin barrens
  • Land could be worth more left to nature than when farmed
  • Next steps announced in process to reinstate and strengthen Migratory Bird Treaty Act
  • A timber lobbyist called our investigation ‘completely bogus’ but we have the receipts to shot its not
  • Ecology secures $3.6 million to restore and preserve vital coastal wetlands
  • Good times in the Galapagos as island welcomes 36 endangered Giant Tortoises
  • Chaco Canyon, a priceless desert park and cultural site, wins reprieve from oil and gas
  • A cephalopod has passed a cognitive test designed for human children
  • Giraffe dies at LA Zoo after delivery of stillborn calf
  • There is a lithium mining war that could poison the Nevada Desert’s water
  • World’s largest fluorescent rock found in New Jersey
  • Giant clam shells worth $3.3 million seized in Philippine raid
  • Rare plant found near Tucson, Sierra Vista to be added to endangered species list
  • Willamette Valley Prairie Flower is latest Endangered Species Act success
  • The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse
  • Red Wolf Veronica, F1858, passes away
  • Biden administration rescinds restrictions on land fund that benefits Arizona
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Conservation News ~ 5 March 2021

3/5/2021

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  • Fine particle matter from wildfire smoke more harmful than pollution from other sources
  • Octopuses can feel pain both physically and abstractly
  • Expect more extreme short-duration thunderstorms caused by global warming
  • Four giraffes have been rafted to safety while five wait on flooding island
  • New report calls for nature to be put at the heart of decision making
  • EU accused of neocolonial plundering of tuna in Indian Ocean
  • Maine natural gas company pulls plug on $90 million midcoast project
  • Rare bee missing for a century rediscovered in Australia
  • Finland ‘most sustainable’ country
  • New industrial growth in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley is environmental racism, UN panel says
  • Extinct megafauna dug incredible tunnels in Brazil
  • 100-Million-Year-Old seafloor sediment bacteria have been resuscitated
  • The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals
  • Astronaut-explorer Richard Garriott sets records on dive to deepest point on Earth
  • Low level thinning can help restore redwood forests without affecting stream temperatures
  • Wooly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England
  • Researchers uncover hidden hunting tactics of wolves in Minnesota’s Northwoods
  • An echidna moves 8-trailer-loads of soil a year
  • The number of IUCN assessed species is now 128,918 with over 35,500 threatened with extinction
  • USFWS delays northern spotted owl critical habitat rule
  • A third of all food in the US gets wasted
  • Alaska Airlines is donating 1 million miles to support SD Zoo
  • Large asteroid Apophis will safely fly by Earth on Friday
  • Space hurricane that rained electrons observed for the first time
  • Species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance
  • Radioactive dust from Nuclear tests in the Sahara comes back to haunt France
  • UK has broken air pollution limits for a decade
  • Israel accuses Iran of deliberately spilling oil in the Mediterranean
  • Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland clears Senate Committee
  • Planting trees will helps fight climate change – but we need billions more seedlings
  • Diversity of fish species supply endangered killer whale diet throughout the year
  • Five new species of shrub frogs found in Western Ghats
  • Wisconsin hunters kill over 200 wolves in less than 3 days
  • Trove of new species discovered in hidden Bolivian valley
  • Illegal grazing decision rescinded, Steens Mountain Wilderness protected
  • Apaches fight to stop copper mine on what they consider sacred land
  • Mountain ‘tsunamis’ have been taking place for 10,000 years in Chilean Patagonia
  • Scientists discover giant, luminous deep-sea predator – sharks that glow in the dark
  • Climate change is leading to premature births in the Brazilian Amazon
  • Waterton Park celebrates return of keystone creature
  • A shadow snake has been rediscovered in Ecuador after 54 years
  • All charges have been dropped against the protectors arrested at the San Marcos Foothills
  • Rooster fitted with blade for cockfight kills its owner in India
  • 11,000 baby white abalone will be planted at a secret spot off the Southern California coast
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