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I generally focus on conservation issues effecting biodiversity, land use/abuse, research, and job opportunities that I have come across. Most of the opportunities come from the Opps page and you can click on the button below to take you there.
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Conservation News ~ Aug 31 2018

8/31/2018

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  • Detroit’s public school district shuts off drinking water, citing lead, copper risk: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643247780/detroits-public-school-district-shuts-off-drinking-water-citing-lead-copper-risk
  • California’s plan to rely entirely on clean energy by 2045 heads to the governor’s desk: https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/california-s-plan-to-rely-entirely-on-clean-energy-by/article_6ece0fce-e380-55a4-9c37-594a560a2fd7.html
  • Extreme heat likely cooked 2,000 fish to death in Malibu Lagoon: https://www.livescience.com/63466-hot-fish-kill.html
  • Canada’s Federal Court of Appeals has quashed the NEB’s approval of Trans Mountain expansion: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-trans-mountain-federal-court-appeals-1.4804495
  • LA County planners recommend approval of Tejon Ranch development: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tejon-ranch-planning-commission-20180829-story.html
  • New Zealand council proposes banning all cats: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/30/paw-outcome-new-zealand-council-proposes-banning-all-cats
  • Ivory processing workshop found in Angola following airport rhino horn seizure: https://www.traffic.org/news/ivory-processing-workshop-found-in-angola/
  • Green Index highlights California’s progress and challenges: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/aug/30/green-index-highlights-california-progress-and-cha/
  • Divers find mysterious mounds ½ mile under sea in SC. They’re massive coral: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2018/08/30/scientists-discovered-a-massive-deep-sea-coral-reef-near-south-carolina/
  • An 18-foot python is on the loose in Poland: https://www.livescience.com/63463-bertha-escaped-python-poland.html
  • Pentagon fires a warning shot against EPA’s secret science rule: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/pentagon-fires-warning-shot-against-epa-s-secret-science-rule
  • Google Earth helps a team of scientists discover an untouched mountaintop forest: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17770988/google-earth-mount-lico-discovery-secret-mozambique-rainforest-expedition
  • Horny dolphin causes French officials to shut down beach: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horny-dolphin-causes-french-officials-to-shut-down-beach/
  • First wolf pups confirmed in Oregon’s northern Cascades: https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/08/first_wolf_pups_confirmed_in_o.html
  • More remote islands may be more susceptible to invasive species: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/more-remote-islands-might-be-more-susceptible-to-invasive-species-study/
  • Public comment period open for proposed grizzly bear population rule: http://www.krtv.com/story/38969865/public-comment-period-opens-for-proposed-grizzly-bear-population-rule
  • Footage shows abattoir workers drowning cows in boiling water: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6093341/Horrifying-footage-shows-abattoir-workers-drowning-cows-boiling-water.html
  • About 300 endangered sea turtles found dead off Mexican coast: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/29/more-than-300-vulnerable-sea-turtles-found-dead-in-sea-off-mexico.html
  • Scientists discover a sixth species of Ebola virus – in bats: https://www.livescience.com/63439-new-ebola-in-bats.html
  • Dolphin hunting begins Sept 1 in Taiji amid tension: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180828/p2a/00m/0na/004000c
  • 2018 Rhino Conservation Award Winners announced: http://www.gameranger.org/news-views/media-releases/133-rhino-conservation-awards-winners-announced.html
  • Florida’s toxic algae crisis continues unabated: https://truthout.org/articles/supercharged-by-pollution-floridas-toxic-algae-crisis-continues-unabated/
  • Climate change report: California to see 77 percent more land burned: https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Climate-change-report-California-to-see-77-13185429.php
  • Pest responsible for food crisis in Africa reaches Kamataka: https://india.mongabay.com/2018/08/28/pest-responsible-for-food-crisis-in-africa-reaches-karnataka/
  • Top Interior staffer who backed shrinking national monuments to join BP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/top-interior-staffer-who-backed-shrinking-national-monuments-to-join-bp/2018/08/27/ab241d0a-aa42-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?noredirect=on
  • UK Prime Minister pledges $5.1 billion in African investment: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642658322/prime-minister-theresa-may-pledges-5-1-billion-in-investment-in-africa
  • Malaysia foils record rhino horn smuggling attempt: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/malaysia-foils-record-rhino-horn-smuggling-attempt-180821100125606.html
  • Celtic rainforest in Wales to be restored with help from EU: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/28/celtic-rainforest-wales-restore-eu
  • Four KNP rhinos killed in two weeks: https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1998782/four-knp-rhinos-killed-in-two-weeks-but-definite-decrease-in-poaching/
  • Alabama tourist disturbs Hawaiian Monk Seals: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/27/do-not-disturb-the-monk-seals-warn-hawaiian-signs-alabama-tourist-learns-they-mean-it/
  • Kruger Park guard arrested on suspicion of poaching: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/kruger-park-guard-arrested-on-suspicion-of-poaching-20180828
  • Call for International Whaling Commission to stop Japan’s proposal: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/call-for-international-whaling-commission-to-stop-japan-s-proposal
  • The world’s largest shipping company is trialing an Arctic route: https://www.businessinsider.com/maersk-launches-arctic-shipping-route-in-a-worrying-environmental-sign-2018-8
  • UN scientific paper suggests capitalism has to die in order for the planet to be saved: https://gritpost.com/un-paper-capitalism/
  • California Assembly advances 100% clean energy bill: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-goal-bill-20180828-story.html
  • French Environment Minister quits in protest in live interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642555342/french-environment-minister-quits-in-live-interview-world-is-not-doing-enough
  • The government says America’s most polluted lake is now clean: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/ywk9g5/the-government-says-americas-most-polluted-lake-is-now-clean-just-dont-eat-the-fish
  • Agriculture dept. will pay $4.7 billion to farmers hit in trade war: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642525831/agriculture-dept-will-pay-4-7-billion-to-farmers-hit-in-trade-war
  • Australian feral camel population estimated to be at 1.2 million and growing: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/australian-feral-camel-population-estimated-to-be-at-12-million-and-growing-fast/news-story/aa162cbe2d1c0b2fc306f6c0aadde341
  • New study confirms historical presence of grizzlies in Washington: https://www.redmond-reporter.com/news/new-study-confirms-historical-presence-of-grizzlies-in-washington/
  • Air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals
  • UN Environment and partners show global restoration success in unprecedented study: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-environment-and-partners-show-global-restoration-success
  • Deforestation continues upward trend in Brazil: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/deforestation-continues-upward-trend-in-brazil-says-ngo/
  • Police raid what may be Europe’s biggest illegal turtle farm: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/illegal-turtle-farm-police-wildlife-trafficking-news/
  • City of Edmonton, U of A joins world’s largest urban wildlife monitoring network: https://www.folio.ca/edmonton-u-of-a-join-worlds-largest-urban-wildlife-monitoring-network/
  • We’re getting better at saving seabirds after oil spills: https://psmag.com/environment/were-getting-better-at-saving-seabirds-after-oil-spills
  • Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause: https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/beluga-whales-killer-whales-and-narwhals-also-go-through-menopause/
  • Cameroon busts Pangolin trafficking to Vietnam: https://www.voanews.com/a/cameroon-busts-pangolin-trafficking-to-vietnam/4539278.html
  • Ca Gov Jerry Brown proposes easing logging rules: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/23/california-fires-governor-proposes-easing-logging-rules-to-thin-forests/
  • Migrating songbirds reach altitudes of up to 13,000 feet: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/migrating-songbirds-altitudes-06310.html
  • US agrees to protect West Coast Humpback whales: https://www.apnews.com/6e47c3ee03b242ea96c8cb50fe683935
  • UN Environment chief backs proposed UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration: https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/29246/un-environment-chief-backs-proposed-u-n-decade-for-ecosystem-restoration/
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Conservation News ~ August 27 2018

8/27/2018

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  • Kroger will phase out plastic bags: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641215873/attention-shoppers-kroger-says-it-is-phasing-out-plastic-bags
  • US Govt blames local boy and his family dog for ‘cyanide bomb’ detonation that injured him, killed dog: https://idahostatejournal.com/members/us-government-blames-local-boy-and-his-family-for-cyanide/article_3e7d7e8f-3ecf-585b-8ed1-edf8d1dfe1b7.html
  • New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/new-orchid-species-discovered-in-peruvian-amazon/
  • Brazil hits emissions target early but rising deforestation risks reversal: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/brazil-hits-emissions-target-early-but-rising-deforestation-risks-reversal/
  • Murder of activist in India highlights growing risk to environmental defenders: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/murder-of-activist-in-india-highlights-growing-risk-to-environmental-defenders/
  • Indo seeks to get palm oil used as jet fuel in US, France: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/indonesia-seeks-to-get-palm-oil-used-as-jet-fuel-in-u-s-france/
  • Iceland illegally murdered yet another pregnant Fin Whale: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/iceland-illegally-murdered-pregnant-fin-whale/
  • Washington wildlife officials order members of Togo wolf pack killed, lawsuit temporarily delays action: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/20/following-cattle-depredations-wdfw-orders-lethal-r/
  • Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year: https://news.utexas.edu/2018/08/22/air-pollution-reduces-global-life-expectancy-by-one-year
  • Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for the first time on record: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
  • 36 dead whales discovered in BC and Alaska have scientists worried: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dead-whales-pacific-blob-1.3228268
  • Judge blocks order to kill wolf pack to protect cattle: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/washington-kill-members-wolf-pack-protect-cattle-57289106
  • Hundreds of trees to be cut down in Vermont before invasive species strike: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/hundreds-of-trees-to-be-cut-down-before-invasive-species-strikes/22794442
  • EPA admits US President would sacrifice thousands of US lives to save a few coal plants: https://thinkprogress.org/epa-admits-trump-would-sacrifice-thousands-of-american-lives-to-save-a-few-coal-plants-b426dda2e76f/
  • Huge win for water quality, bull trout recovery, taxpayers: https://idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/huge-win-for-idaho-s-water-quality-bull-trout-recovery/article_28c1efc6-fc65-5781-9034-d536237a6cbb.html
  • BC Supreme Court sides with Jumbo Glacier Resort: https://www.e-know.ca/regions/columbia-valley/b-c-supreme-court-sides-with-jumbo-glacier-resort/
  • New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest’: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-evolution-favor-survival-laziest.html
  • Toxic ‘red tide’ blamed for rise of manatee deaths in Florida: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/manatee-deaths-toxic-red-tide-algae-bloom-florida
  • Poet, three seniors arrested at Burnaby pipeline protest: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/poet-three-seniors-arrested-at-burnaby-pipeline-protest-1.4067264
  • Amazon tribe never seen by outsiders is spotted by drone: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/americas/brazil-amazon-tribe.html
  • Humanity has killed 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/humans-destroyed-83-of-wildlife-report/
  • Overfishing causes crisis in Philippines: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/they-are-taking-out-a-generation-of-tuna-overfishing-causes-crisis-in-philippines
  • Omaha’s zoo is helping to keep gopher frogs from going extinct: https://www.ketv.com/article/omahas-zoo-is-helping-to-keep-gopher-frogs-from-going-extinct/22760293
  • Illegal turtle farm raise nets massive haul including endangered species worth $12g each: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/23/illegal-turtle-farm-raid-nets-massive-haul-including-endangered-species-worth-12g-each-officials-say.html
  • 122 sea turtles from an endangered species found dead on Mexico beach: https://guardian.ng/news/122-sea-turtles-found-dead-on-mexico-beach/
  • Nearly 40,000 giraffe parts have been imported to the US in last 10 years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/giraffe-parts-humane-society-report
  • Blue star diver operators remove over one tone of marine debris from reefs in Florida Keys: https://marinesanctuary.org/news/goal-clean-seas-update-1/
  • China designates eight new RAMSAR sites: https://www.ramsar.org/news/china-designates-eight-new-ramsar-sites
  • New EPA rollback of coal pollution regulations takes a major step forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/climate/epa-clean-power-rollback.html
  • Leopard hunting quota was issued despite official report showing significant population declines: https://africageographic.com/blog/leopard-hunting-quota-was-issued-despite-official-report-showing-significant-population-declines/
  • 4 Wyoming wolf pups found dead: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2018-08-20/4-wolf-pups-found-dead-on-public-land-in-wyoming
  • Icelandic commercial whalers killed a pregnant Fin Whale: http://icelandmag.is/article/outrage-photos-show-hvalur-hf-killed-a-pregnant-fin-whale
  • Report detailing lead poisoning in young children on army bases draws fire from lawmakers: https://thinkprogress.org/lead-poisoning-army-report-lawmakers-questions-cedac0026340/
  • Indigenous challenge to Adani mine agreement dismissed by Federal Court: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/adani-federal-court-traditional-owners-native-title/10131920
  • Courts uphold glyphosate’s spot on California’s Prop 65 list of carcinogens: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/nrdc/courts-uphold-glyphosates-spot-californias-prop-65-list-carcinogens
  • Sweden loses highest peak as record temperatures hit Arctic: http://time.com/5357175/sweden-highest-peak-melts/
  • DNC reverses ban on accepting fossil fuel industry money: https://therealnews.com/stories/dnc-reverses-ban-on-accepting-fossil-fuel-industry-money
  • Two bison bulls bolt from Banff park project: https://www.rmoutlook.com/article/two-bison-bulls-bolt-from-banff-park-project-20180816
  • Paleontologist uncover complete Tyrannosaur in Montana: https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/paleontologists-uncover-complete-tyrannosaur-in-montana/article_951c74fe-7d83-5a5c-a068-06a4b2c7bb79.html
  • Gulf of Mexico lease sale 251 yields $178 million in high bids: https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/paleontologists-uncover-complete-tyrannosaur-in-montana/article_951c74fe-7d83-5a5c-a068-06a4b2c7bb79.html
  • Interior secretary cancels federal proposal to sell off public land inside the former Grand Staircase: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/08/17/interior-secretary/
  • Last South African coelacanths threatened by oil exploration: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/17/older-than-dinosaurs-last-south-african-coelacanths-threatened-by-oil-exploration
  • A federal judge struck down the administration’s Clean Water Act Attack: https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/federal-judge-strikes-down-administrations-clean-water-act-attack
  • Montana moving forward with grizzly bear management objectives: http://www.krtv.com/story/38861006/montana-moving-forward-with-grizzly-bear-management-objectives
  • Climate change is emptying the desert of birds: http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/08/climate-change-is-emptying-the-desert-of-birds/
  • Appeals court ruling halts giant forest project in Idaho: https://www.apnews.com/4191c755afbe4f18a1287b901f9b0067
  • Swift Foxes return to Alberta: https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/swift-foxes-return-alberta
  • Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/​
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Conservation News ~ August 17 2018

8/17/2018

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  • Interpol’s most wanted is freed – Kenya’s High Court released elephant poacher: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/08/16/big-read-feisal-acquital-blow-to-justice_c1802692
  • US judge rules securities suit against Exxon, executives can proceed: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-mobil-lawsuit/u-s-judge-rules-securities-suit-against-exxon-executives-can-proceed-idUSKBN1L01WB
  • The cholla cactus didn’t bloom this year and California scientists team up to find out why: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/aug/14/cholla-cactus-didnt-bloom-year-california-scientis/
  • Bird population plummets in Pinon forests pummeled by climate change: https://www.audubon.org/news/bird-population-plummets-pinon-forests-pummeled-climate-change
  • Dept of Interior finally admits that climate change is making wildfires worse: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/zinke-admits-that-climate-change-is-making-wildfires-worse.html
  • USDA bails out dairy industry with $50 million band-aid: https://vegnews.com/2018/8/usda-bails-out-dairy-industry-with-50-million-band-aid
  • Rhino breeder Piet Warren sells half his animals due to financial pressure: https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1994266/rhino-breeder-piet-warren-sells-half-his-animals-due-to-financial-pressure/
  • More than 2.7 million pounds of dead fish removed from Florida beaches, so far: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/florida/2018/08/13/more-than-2-7-million-pounds-dead-fish-removed-florida-beaches-so-far/979016002/
  • Pine Marten spotted in Northumberland for first time in 90 years: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/15/pine-marten-spotted-in-northumberland-for-first-time-in-90-years
  • Cascade wolf, OR-7, is a dad -again: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Famous-Oregon-wolf-OR-7-sires-5th-consecutive-13159010.php
  • Endangered whale sharks can live up to 130 years: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/scientists-say-endangered-whale-sharks-can-live-up-to-130-years/
  • South American soy fed to EU livestock drives Gran Chaco deforestation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/south-american-soy-fed-to-eu-livestock-drives-gran-chaco-deforestation/
  • “Biological passports” show whale sharks travel less than we thought: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/biological-passports-show-whale-sharks-travel-less-than-we-thought/
  • Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-scientists-mineral-co2-atmosphere.html
  • World’s newest Great Ape threatened by Chinese dam: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2018/apr/23/worlds-newest-great-ape-threatened-by-chinese-dam
  • Activists get big victories in fight against Appalachia pipelines: https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-appalachia-pipelines-activism-setbacks-dc16ef76b9fb/
  • Kenya: Queries over how Hippo was identified, killed after tourist mauled: https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2018/08/queries-over-how-hippo-was-identified-killed-after-tourist-mauled/
  • Scotland’s mountain hare population is at just 1% of 1950s level: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/14/scotlands-mountain-hare-population-severe-decline
  • US Interior Dept reverses ban on pesticides in wildlife refuges: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump-s-interior-department-reverses-ban-pesticides-wildlife-refuges
  • Hippo bite kills tourist in Kenya: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45162747
  • Poachers kill 40 elephants in Botswana: https://southerntimesafrica.com/site/news/poachers-kill-40-elephants-in-botswana
  • Half of the Great Barrier Reef is Dead: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/explore-atlas-great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-map-climate-change/
  • Monsanto ordered to pay $289m, saying Roundup causes cancer: https://www.economist.com/business/2018/08/18/a-shock-court-verdict-against-monsantos-roundup
  • Roundup found in breakfast cereal: https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/glyphosate-from-monsantos-weed-killer-roundup-in-breakfast-cereal-isnt-something-to-worry-about.html​
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Conservation News ~ August 10 2018

8/10/2018

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This is my brother Harrison's instrument to study atmospheric chemistry. It has a pretty professional and technical name but it sounds like Koala Dome so that's what I called it.
  • Widespread groundwater contamination risk from chromium: https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/23/widespread-groundwater-contamination-risk-chromium/
  • Meat giant Smithfield fines $473 million for poisoning North Carolinians: https://vegnews.com/2018/8/meat-giant-smithfield-fined-473-million-for-poisoning-north-carolinians
  • Alabama beachgoers may have killed hundreds of protected birds: https://abcnews.go.com/US/beach-volleyball-players-alabama-island-killed-hundreds-unhatched/story?id=57081659
  • US president’s wildlife protection council is mostly trophy hunters and donors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/08/01/trumps-wildlife-protection-council-is-mostly-trophy-hunters-and-donors-lawsuit-says/
  • Kuala Lumpur river restored breathes new life: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/a-river-restored-breathes-new-life-into-kuala-lumpur/
  • Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/madagascar-proposes-paying-illegal-loggers-to-audit-or-buy-their-rosewood/
  • Africa’s biggest cobra is five species, not one: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/africas-biggest-cobra-is-five-species-not-one-study-finds/
  • Alan Rabinowitz, big cat evangelist and conservationist, dies: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/alan-rabinowitz-big-cat-evangelist-and-voice-of-the-wild-dies-at-64/
  • World’s largest battery saved South Australia $8.9 million in 6 months: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/06/analysis-reveals-that-worlds-largest-battery-saves-south-australia-8-9-million-in-6-months/
  • Chile just banned plastic bags: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/world/americas/chile-plastic-bags-ban.html
  • EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing: https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
  • A red tide ravaging Florida may have killed a whale shark for the first known time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/08/03/a-red-tide-ravaging-florida-may-have-killed-a-whale-shark-for-the-first-known-time/?utm_term=.5b6d15fb86f6
  • Greenville Zoo announces birth of baby orangutan: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/08/07/greenville-zoo-welcomes/
  • New Report reveals 100,000 dolphins and small whales hunted every year: http://uk.whales.org/blog/2018/08/new-report-reveals-100000-dolphins-and-small-whales-hunted-every-year
  • Minke whales win a victory in Iceland: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/iceland-ends-minke-whale-hunting
  • EPA reverses decision on air emission standards: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-reverses-course-says-it-will-enforce-stricter-pollution-limits-for-glider-trucks/2018/07/26/705ff4ee-9144-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html
  • Ecosystems across Australia are collapsing under climate change: http://theconversation.com/ecosystems-across-australia-are-collapsing-under-climate-change-99367
  • Welsh river study reveals ‘troubling’ decline of wildlife: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/05/welsh-river-study-reveals-troubling-decline-of-wildlife
  • Chevron must pay or environmental damage in Ecuador: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/chevron-must-pay-for-environmental-damage-in-ecuador-court-rules/
  • North Carolina governor says Endangered wolf protection should stay: https://www.apnews.com/5d512eb19720473385dd1235a0303918
  • 10 of 11 relocated rhinos dies as Kenya conservation bid backfires: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-rhinos-kenya-critically-endangered-species-almost-all-die-new-home/
  • 95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/95-percent-of-all-lemur-species-face-high-risk-of-extinction/
  • Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/colombia-bans-the-use-of-mercury-in-mining/
  • King Penguin numbers plummet: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45014746
  • South Carolina reauthorizes Conservation Bank: http://www.ducks.org/press-room/news-releases/south-carolina-conservation-bank-reauthorized
  • New Delhi to run out of groundwater in two years as India faces ‘day zero’ crises: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/19/new-delhi-run-groundwater-two-years-india-faces-day-zero-crises/
  • Clemson ends 30-year tradition of balloon launch: http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38758072/clemson-ends-30-year-tradition-of-balloon-launch
  • Brussels bans animal testing on cats, dogs, and primates: https://vegnews.com/2018/7/brussels-bans-animal-testing-on-cats-dogs-and-primates
  • Endangered Species Act generates more than $1 Trillion a year : http://time.com/5347260/endangered-species-act-reform/
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  • Just 13% of the world’s oceans are still wild: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/new-map-reveals-just-13-world-s-oceans-are-still-wild
  • Judge orders US govt to ban all seafood harvested with gillnets in Mexico’s northern Gulf of California: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-vaquita-seafood-ban-20180726-story.html
  • Walt Disney Company to eliminate plastic straws and more by 2019: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/walt-disney-company-eliminate-plastic-straws-2019/story?id=56812530
  • Ibis that was extinct in wild taught to migrate by following aircraft: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/20/formerly-extinct-ibis-taught-to-migrate-by-following-light-aircraft
  • Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/number-of-murdered-environmental-activists-rose-once-again-in-2017/
  • 2700 scientists issue call to action on border wall wildlife threat: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/2700-scientists-issue-call-to-action-on-border-wall-wildlife-threat/
  • Deforestation skyrockets in the Amazon rainforest: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/deforestation-skyrockets-in-the-amazon-rainforest/
  • New frog species names after fabled female warriors: https://www.braveheightsnews.com/2018/07/22/new-frog-species-named-after-fabled-female-warriors-2/
  • Target introduces vegan and cruelty-free label to help customers make more ethical purchases: https://www.livekindly.co/target-vegan-plant-based-cruelty-free-labeling/
  • Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s and surface, two-thirds of that land is essentially natural: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/indigenous-peoples-control-one-quarter-of-worlds-land-surface-two-thirds-of-that-land-is-essentially-natural/
  • New species of venomous snake discovered by accident in Australia: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/new-species-of-venomous-snake-discovered-by-accident-in-australia/
  • Dept of Interior director sidesteps climate change in broadside blaming ‘radical environmentalists’ for wildfires: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-and-zinke-blame-environmentalists-not-climate-change-for-the-wildfires-4f5c5109054e/
  • New Zealand will ban plastic bags: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/jacinda-ardern-says-new-zealand-will-ban-plastic-bags
  • 1.6 million acres of California public lands will be open to fracking: https://www.ecowatch.com/fracking-california-public-lands-2594203156.html
  • North American diets require more land than we have, study says: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-north-american-diets-require.html
  • France pushes for ‘highly automated’ vehicles by 2022: http://europe.autonews.com/article/20180808/ANE/180809840/france-pushes-for-highly-automated-vehicles-by-2022
  • EPA ordered to ban pesticide linked to learning disabilities: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/09/epa-pesticide-learning-disabilities-banned-chlorpyrifos
  • Conservationists sue whaling company: http://icelandreview.com/news/2018/08/09/conservationists-sue-whaling-company
  • Yellowstone biologists calls bison recovery ‘greatest of all time’: https://trib.com/lifestyles/recreation/yellowstone-biologist-calls-bison-recovery-greatest-of-all-time/article_2f5cf3dc-0fc2-546d-be18-7da30e9e9264.html
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