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Conservation News ~ 29 October 2021

10/29/2021

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  • "U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System"
  • "Billions In Environmental Justice Funds Hang In The Balance"
  • "La Niña Weather Pattern Likely to Prolong Western Drought, NOAA Says"
  • "Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security"
  • "Greenpeace Chief Warns Of ‘Greenwashing’ at UN Climate Talks"
  • "California Seeks Strict Limits On New Oil Drilling Near Communities"
  • "Federal Firefighters Deserve Better Pay And Benefits, Lawmakers Say"
  • "Planned Fossil Fuel Output ‘Vastly Exceeds’ Climate Limits, Says UN"
  • "Plastics Poised To Overtake Coal As Climate Driver" - Report
  • "Why No Tusks? Poaching Tips Scales Of Elephant Evolution"
  • Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows
  • Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says
  • Can we stop calling it ‘forest bathing’ now? Please, just take a hike. (commentary)
  • Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast
  • ‘Unequal exchange’ for Brazil community in shadow of Anglo American mine
  • COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do
  • Opposition to South Africa coal mine persists a year after murder of activist
  • Report: Luxury carmakers still sourcing deforestation-linked leather from Paraguay
  • "Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action"
  • "UN Warns World 'Way Off Track' As Greenhouse Gases Grow"
  • "Judge Issues Injunction Blocking Wisconsin Fall Wolf Hunt"
  • Big Ag Pays Farmers For Control Of Their Soil-Bound Carbon
  • "Drought-Stricken California Doused By Powerful Storm"
  • "Judge Nixes Trump-Era Limits On Regulation Of Water-Polluting Projects"
  • Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels"
  • "White House Taps Martha Williams To Head FWS"
  • "Navajo Nation Pushes For Radioactive Waste Remnants To Be Removed"
  • "Fishery Closures and the Ghosts of Past Mistakes"
  • Hong Kong Baptist University's discovery of new coral and nudibranch species
  • An endangered species of African giant owl is captured for the first time in 150 years
  • New flower species found in Shei-pa National Park
  • Critically endangered Sunda pangolin caught on camera trap
  • California Protects Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles As Endangered Species
  • Giant pandas no longer endangered, China says
  • Hertz will buy 100,000 Teslas, marking a big bet on electric vehicles in rental cars
  • State Judge Issues "Dramatic Decision" in Striking Down Wisconsin Wolf Hunt
  • Bolsonaro evades genocide blame amid Indigenous deaths by invaders, COVID-19
  • $200 million in gold extracted in Amazon mine through illegal licenses
  • Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities
  • Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra
  • On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes
  • "World Set To Miss Goal Of $100B Climate Aid Pledged To Poor"
  • "Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New Record Despite Lockdowns, UN Reports"
  • "Manchin Pushes For More Climate Cuts From The Budget Bill"
  • Natural Gas Leaks In Boston Vastly Underreported — Could Be Inside Homes
  • "Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater"
  • "Attorneys Eye Glasgow Talks for Progress on Many Climate Issues"
  • GenX: "EPA Deems ‘Forever Chemical’ Haunting N.C. Toxic To Humans"
  • Hawaii Has A One-Year Deadline To Ditch Coal. Can It Keep Lights On?
  • "A Climate-Conscious Fox Weather Could Leave Audiences Confused"
  • Conservation Dogs May Help in Search for Endangered Franklin’s Bumblebee
  • Trigonopterus corona, the new species of tiny beetle named after the coronavirus
  • On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, museum scientists have discovered 28 new species of beetles
  • Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are people too, US court rules
  • Polar bear hunting a reindeer caught on tape for first time
  • Court strikes down Trump EPA water permitting rule
  • NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people
  • Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine
  • Indigenous Bolivians take the defense of their land into their own hands
  • Poisoned city: The story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster
  • World Faces Disastrous 2.7C Heating On Current Climate Plans, UN Warns
  • "White House Sets Climate Spending At Up To $555 Billion"
  • Biden FWS Moves To Undo Two Trump-Era Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
  • "Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Violations"
  • "Gulf Arab States, Squeezed By Climate Change, Still Tout Oil"
  • "Majority in US Concerned About Climate: AP-NORC/EPIC Poll"
  • Australia Pledges ‘Net Zero’ by 2050. Plan Makes That Hard to Believe
  • Big Oil Hearing To Kick Off Probe Into Climate Disinformation: Lawmaker
  • "White House To Release Climate Strategy Ahead Of Glasgow"
  • "Italy Hosts A Climate-Focused G20 As Geopolitics Shift"
  • Indigenous leaders to push for land tenure rights as climate solution at COP26
  • Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title
  • Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution
  • Deprived of their forests, Uganda’s Batwa adapt their sustainable practices
  • Biden administration plans roll backs of Trump-era Endangered Species Act rules
  • Discovery of a new species of fish thanks to sounds
  • Marine Biologists Identify New Species of Beaked Whale
  • Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing
  • Putin Pledges Carbon Neutrality By 2060 -- Claims Forests Will Do Job
  • ‘Not a Solution Itself’: India Questions Net Zero Targets Ahead of Cop26
  • "Release of EPA Methane Rules Expected This Week"
  • "EPA Taps 10 Environmental Justice Panel Members to Advise Agency"
  • Trudeau Picks Ex-Greenpeace Activist As Climate Chief, Angering Oil Patch
  • Indigenous Leaders Push Land Tenure Rights As Climate Solution At COP26
  • Human Rights Group To Investigate Uranium Contamination On Navajo Nation
  • Wildfires, Cutting, Heating Turn 10 Unesco Forests Into Carbon Sources
  • "Are We on the Verge of Chatting With Whales?"
  • Indonesian farmers resisting an iron mine run up against a sultan
  • Indigenous guides warn of repercussions if we don’t fix our relationship with nature
  • Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders
  • Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say
  • A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet
  • What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis
  • Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime
  • In Zimbabwe, an irrigation project threatens a tribe’s land and trees
  • Podcast: Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition
  • Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers
  • Endangered birds experience 'virgin birth,' a first for the species
  • "Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill"
  • "Dems, Oil Execs Clash At Hearing: ‘They Are Obviously Lying’"
  • "China’s New Climate Pledge Changes Little, in Bad Omen for Global Talks"
  • Brazil's Greenhouse Emissions Rose 9.5% In 2020 With Amazon Deforestation
  • "Forced Relocation Left Native Americans More Exposed to Climate Threats"
  • Enviros Petition EPA To Rescind Factory Farms’ “Free Pass To Pollute”
  • "EPA Unveils Strategy For Reducing Lead Exposure"
  • "What a $2B Texas Project Says About U.S. Quest For CO2-Free Grid"
  • "What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?"
  • ‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest
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Conservation News ~ 22 October 2021

10/22/2021

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  • As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface
  • Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?
  • Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions: Studies
  • Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds
  • 30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)
  • Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo
  • Key Biden Climate Plan Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition
  • 120,000+ US Sites Feared To Handle Harmful PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals
  • "The United States Has More Abandoned Wells Than We Thought"
  • "G-20 Climate Talks Stall Ahead of Rome Leaders’ Summit"
  • "La Niña Is Back. Here’s What That Means."
  • "Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Raises Ire Of Environmentalists"
  • Industry Resists Decommissioning Decades-Old California Offshore Oil Rigs
  • Drought Brings Rough Year For U.S. Hydropower. Is It a Long-Term Shift?
  • "Flood Insurance Rates Are Spiking For Many, To Account For Climate Risk"
  • Florida Mulls The Unthinkable: Feeding Starving Manatees In The Wild
  • Beyond tree planting: When to let forests restore themselves
  • Drones are a knife in the gunfight against poaching. But they’re leveling up
  • Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities
  • Oil company at center of Orange County spill received millions in federal relief
  • She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award
  • "Biden Administration Moves To Curtail Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’"
  • "Senate Hearing On Sams To Head National Parks Set For Oct. 19"
  • Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out
  • "Environmentalists Secure Water Rights For Great Salt Lake"
  • "Senate Democrats Release 9 Spending Bills"
  • "US Formally Removes Colorado River Fish’s Endangered Status"
  • "Satellites Reveal The Secrets Of Water-Guzzling Farms In California"
  • "How Industrial Chicken Production Is Breeding The Next Pandemic"
  • "Factbox - COP26 in Glasgow: Who Is Going And Who Is Not?"
  • "Russia Allows Methane Leaks At Planet’s Peril"
  • In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees
  • Project maps soundscape of northern Adriatic and impact on marine life
  • Light exhibits at Indonesian botanic garden spark commercialization concerns
  • Mangrove photo contest winners reveal majesty of these coastal forests
  • Regulators can no longer rubber-stamp expansion of the oil and gas industry
  • Five critically endangered monkeys shot dead in Vietnam
  • "Biden Focuses On Climate, Families In Trimmed $2T Plan"
  • "Parade Of Powerful Storms To Bring Welcome Rain And Snow To California"
  • Net Zero Announcement: UK Sets Out Plans To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • "Dammit, Coal’s Back"
  • "99.9% Of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused By Humans"
  • "Climate Report: Africa’s Rare Glaciers Soon To Disappear"
  • 'Brown Recovery' Ends Hope Pandemic Stimulus Would Drive Climate Spending
  • "Diesel Trucks Are Causing Environmental Injustice Across US Cities"
  • WaPo Crossed Line with Climate Stories Featuring Excerpt-Style Exxon "Ads"
  • Canada's Peatlands Can Fight Natural Disasters And The Climate Crisis.
  • Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter
  • With Bachman’s warbler and others added to the ‘extinct’ list, we must support biodiversity agreements (commentary)
  • Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project
  • In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease
  • U.S.’s Best Hope For Real Climate Policy Is Fizzling. What Happens Now?
  • Document Leak Reveals Nations Lobbying To Change Key Climate Report
  • "How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution"
  • "Feds Hit Brakes — Again — On Mining Near Boundary Waters"
  • "Reports: Health Problems Tied To Global Warming On The Rise"
  • People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late
  • Wildfire Smoke Harms More People In The Eastern U.S. Than West: Study
  • "In Harm’s Way: Our Actions Put People And Wildlife At Risk Of Disease"
  • "See How the Dixie Fire Created Its Own Weather"
  • "Salmon Need Trees"
  • Paraguay failed to stop soy farms from poisoning Indigenous land, UN says
  • Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa
  • Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island
  • California OKs new protections for leatherback sea turtles
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Conservation News ~ 15 October 2021

10/15/2021

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  • 9 in 10 cars now being sold in Norway are electric or hybrid
  • Deep seabed mining is risky. If something goes wrong, who will pay for it?
  • Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill
  • High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary
  • The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov’t being bought up
  • Experts see no way back for NZ firm blocked from trying to mine the seabed
  • New Species of Primrose Family Found in Cangyuan, Yunnan
  • Australian museum uncovers new shell species
  • UN declares access to a clean environment a human right
  • New species of sea slug can regenerate entire body - even after losing its head
  • Amazon's "Mystery Plant" finally confirmed as a new species
  • New frog species named after late amphibian curator at Detroit Zoo
  • President Biden reinstates fishing limits in a Gulf of Maine conservation area
  • Facebook to block illegal sales of protected Amazon rainforest lands
  • FOREST Act bill would hold global suppliers accountable for illegal deforestation
  • Hidden camera footage exposes bribery for palm oil in Papua New Guinea
  • Vermont removes bald eagle from its endangered species list after years of restoration
  • Lawsuit Launched After California Oil Spill to Protect Whales, Other Endangered Animals
  • Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Pending Bills
  • UN Urges Nations To Spend More On Species Protection As New Talks Begin
  • "Gas Prices, Europe's Energy Crunch Threaten Biden Climate Push"
  • "Chicago EPA Office To Be Led By Evanston Politician Debra Shore"
  • "EPA Grants Petitions to Stem Climate Pollutants in Future Rules"
  • "Impact Of Forest Thinning On Wildfires Creates Divisions"
  • Biden DOE Announces Goal Of 5 Million Homes Powered By Community Solar
  • "In Secret Tapes, Palm Oil Execs Disclose Corruption, Brutality"
  • Top UN Panel Votes to Recognize Human Right to a Clean Environment
  • "Beyond Coal: End To Deforestation Sought At COP26 Climate Summit"
  • Solar Desalination device will provide clean water to 400,000 Kenyans
  • Oil slicks an algae blooms marring Venezuala’s largest lake are visible from space
  • These farmers want to salt the earth – and grow crops in it
  • China’s population projected to fall by half within 30 years
  • Indonesian activists build museum of 10,000 items of plastic waste
  • Large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels encroaches on South American waters at Galapagos Islands
  • For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham
  • Brazil farming co-op carves a sustainable path through agribusiness stronghold
  • Mixed signals from Gabon officials to villagers fighting to save a forest
  • On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, celebrating Earth’s unsung environmental stewards
  • In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest
  • Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia
  • Fires leave trail of dead wildlife, scorched land in Bolivia’s protected areas
  • Brazil reports increase in Amazon logging
  • Feds kill 8 wolf pups from pack tracked for years by Idaho high school students
  • "More Than 30 Countries Join U.S. Pledge to Slash Methane Emissions"
  • "Madagascar Prays For Rain As U.N. Warns Of 'Climate Change Famine'"
  • "Indigenous Leaders Call For Stronger Rights As UN Nature Summit Begins"
  • New California Law Bans Gasoline-Powered Lawn Mowers, Leaf Blowers
  • "Mass Floods Hit China’s Coal Hub, Threatening Power Supplies"
  • "Climate Action At COP26 Could Save Millions Of Lives, WHO Says"
  • Indigenous Activists Demonstrate on Climate In Front of White House
  • "Can the World’s Most Polluting Heavy Industries Decarbonize?"
  • Research Finds 'Suite Of Chemicals' In Vape Liquids, Some Unsafe
  • Outcry After Federal Agents Kill 8 Wolf Cubs Adopted By Idaho School
  • Biden Administration Urged to Triple Listing Budget for Endangered Species
  • Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation
  • ‘Pristine wilderness’ without human presence is a flawed construct, study says
  • Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars
  • Indonesian park officials douse wildfire in Javan leopard habitat
  • Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch
  • Follow the butterfly: Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ plants highlights Sri Lanka’s new red list
  • Indonesia urged to improve policies protecting fishing vessel workers
  • Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea
  • Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future
  • Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts
  • Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes
  • Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis
  • Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things
  • Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom
  • To spot wild-caught birds in pet trade, researchers zoom into isotopic detail
  • ‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26
  • To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest
  • "US Heating Bills Will Jump As Much As 54% This Winter, Says Government"
  • Biosurveillance of Wildlife Markets Needed To Curb Pandemic Risk: Experts
  • "Agencies Warn of Cyber Threats To Water, Wastewater Systems"
  • Canada's Iqaluit Declares Emergency After Suspected Water Contamination
  • "Democrats Begin Scrutiny of Abandoned Offshore Oil Equipment"
  • "EPA Plans to Clean Up Troubled Chemical and Pesticide Programs"
  • Vanished From 8 States, American Bumblebees Could Face Extinction
  • "Indigenous Demonstrators Make Statement At Interior"
  • "Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now"
  • "A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms"
  • White House Unveils Plans For Massive Expansion Of Offshore Wind Farms
  • "Over 100 Nations To Adopt 'Kunming Declaration' To Boost Biodiversity"
  • Calif. Alisal Fire Has Prompted Evacuations, Road And Amtrak Closures
  • "Energy Agency Urges Bigger Global Push To Cut Emissions"
  • Pollution From N.C.’s Poultry Farms Unduly Harms Communities Of Color
  • "Private Equity Funds, Sensing Profit in Tumult, Are Propping Up Oil"
  • "Nickel Shortage Spells Trouble For EVs — Report"
  • Ethylene Oxide: "EPA Eyes Broader Oversight Of Cancer-Causing Gas"
  • "Solving Bali's Rivers of Trash"
  • "With a Warming Climate, Coastal Fog Around the World Is Declining"
  • Majority-Black Mich. City Has Water Problem That Rivals Flint Crisis
  • "An Empire of Dying Wells"
  • "Inside the Fight Against the Dixie Fire"
  • "Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. Roads Vulnerable To Flooding — Report"
  • 85 Percent Of World Population Affected By Climate Change, Study Shows
  • Bolsonaro Accused Of Crimes Against Humanity At ICC For Amazon Record
  • "Study Finds Tens Of Thousands Of 'Forever Chemical' Sites in US"
  • "Great Salt Lake’s Demise Spurs Water Emergency For Utah"
  • "Already This Year, 18 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Have Hit U.S.
  • "As Drought Worsens, California Farmers Are Being Paid Not To Grow Crops"
  • Researchers find Greenland’s groundwater changes with thinning ice sheet
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Conservation News ~ 8 October 2021

10/8/2021

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  • "Crews Race To Limit Damage From Major California Oil Spill"
  • "Manchin Clashes With Fellow Democrats Over Fossil-Fuel Demands"
  • Ariz. Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi
  • Pushed To The Edge, La. Tribe Wonder Where To Go After Ida
  • Op-Ed: "Migration Will Soon Be The Biggest Climate Challenge Of Our Time"
  • "An “Attack On American Cities” Is Freezing Climate Action In Its Tracks"
  • "Great Wall of Lights: China's Sea Power On Darwin's Doorstep"
  • "Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit"
  • "Global Natural Gas Crunch Roils Consumers and Industry"
  • For Bangladesh Climate Migrants, Pandemic Job Cuts Fuel 'Multiple Crises'
  • Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans
  • "Senate Confirms Biden’s Pick to Lead the Bureau of Land Management"
  • Some Utilities Support, and Others Doubt, Dem Clean Electricity Proposal
  • "UN Rules That Steven Donziger House Arrest Violates International Laws"
  • BC Anti-Logging Protesters Win As Judge Denies Firm’s Injunction Bid
  • "California Regulators Warn Of Dry Reservoirs, Restrictions"
  • "Deportations Of Haitians Spark Concerns Over Environmental Refugees"
  • Biden DOI Sets November Date For Gulf Lease Sale Canceled In February
  • The High Price Of Living Near The Shore Is About To Go Through The Roof
  • Cowabunga: "Scientists Drove A Robotic Surfboard Into Hurricane Sam"
  • Oil spills plague Venezuelan coast, but cleanup efforts are lacking: Report
  • Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say
  • How can philanthropy be more effective in environmental grant making? (commentary)
  • For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’
  • ‘Antithetical to science’: When deep-sea research meets mining interests
  • Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction
  • Researchers discover 12 new species of geckos in Western Ghats
  • New species of swamp eel discovered in Mumbai
  • A gendered approach to the illegal wildlife trade could engender an anti-trafficking revolution (commentary)
  • For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later
  • For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission
  • "Three Scientists Win Nobel for Work on Climate Breakthroughs"
  • "14% Of World’s Coral Lost In Less Than A Decade, Study Shows"
  • "Did Ship’s Anchor Cause California Oil Spill? Maybe"
  • "Urban Heat Is Getting More Dangerous"
  • "Oil Spills Plague Venezuelan Coast, But Cleanup Efforts Are Lacking"
  • Rare Flower Found At Site Of Planned Lithium Mine May Be Endangered
  • "Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Plans To Raze Old-Growth Forest"
  • 5 Midwest Governors Agree To Create Network To Charge Electric Vehicles
  • Month After Ida's Landfall, Louisianians Decry 'Third World' Conditions
  • "How Do Thousands Prepare for a Climate Summit? With Difficulty."
  • "Mapping California’s Oil Spill: Aging Pipes Line the Coast"
  • "Germany's Center-Right Woos Greens for Possible Coalition"
  • Burning Wood (Biomass) Is Promoted As A Carbon Neutral Fuel. But Is It?
  • Historical Emissions Reveal Responsibility Of Big Polluting Nations
  • "Bayer Wins First Roundup Trial as Jury Rejects Cancer Claim"
  • "Fossil Fuel Firms Feel The Heat Over Push For Advertising Ban"
  • "The Ship That Became a Bomb"
  • "The Greenland Connection"
  • "UN Weather Agency Says World Ill-Prepared For ‘Looming Water Crisis’"
  • "Fire Brain": "What It's Like to Photograph the West's Biggest Wildfires"
  • Florida lawmaker pushing to put manatees back on endangered species list         
  • Three new species of freshwater goby fish found in Japan and the Philippines
  • ‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park
  • Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown
  • Indonesia investigates alleged abuse of Sumatran tigers at city zoo
  • Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful
  • In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future
  • A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in India
  • Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for October 2021
  • On islands that inspired theory of evolution, deforestation cuts uneven path
  • Simple method for converting carbon dioxide into useful compounds
  • Judge halts Southern Oregon logging project
  • Research in climate modeling and complex systems wins Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Extreme heat exposure in cities tripled in less than 35 years, study finds
  • Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out
  • Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention
  • Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous
  • Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?
  • Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist
  • In Half-Earth Project, a full-on bid to get countries to protect biodiversity
  • "White House Outlines Plan To Overhaul Trump NEPA Rules"
  • "A ‘Historic Event’: First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O."
  • "DOJ Investigating Trump’s Car Emissions Probe"
  • "City In Michigan Urged To Use Bottled Water Due To Lead Risk"
  • "Fossil Fuel Industry Gets Subsidies Of $11M A Minute, IMF Finds"
  • "Greenpeace Calls For End To Carbon Offsets"
  • "Pandemic Complicates Preparations for COP26 Climate Summit"
  • New Protections For California Aquifers Are Reshaping Central Valley
  • "Canada Invokes 1977 Treaty With US As Dispute Over Pipeline Intensifies"
  • "Google Maps Rolls Out ‘Eco-Friendly’ Routes"
  • Two New Species of Venomous Snakes Discovered
  • Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates?
  • From Shanghai Knights to gecko life: The Jackie Chan gecko among 12 new Indian species
  • In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon
  • Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub
  • Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves
  • Biden To Expand Bears Ears, Other National Monuments, Reversing Trump
  • "6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change"
  • Google Bans Ads With False Claims About Climate Change
  • "Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov Win Nobel Peace Prize"
  • "Moment Of Truth For Grid Expansion: Who Pays?"
  • "Corps of Engineers Considers Nature-Based Flood Control"
  • "As the Climate Bakes, Turkey Faces a Future Without Water"
  • "Navajo Leaders Seek Hearing On Oil And Gas Drilling Dispute"
  • "What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?"
  • "Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters"
  • With a Nearly Foot-Long Proboscis, This New Moth Species Holds Record for Longest Insect Tongue
  • Crude oil spills from Galveston Bay, Tx refinery
  • Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds
  • The Nobel in Physics is awarded to three climate change scientists
  • Giant, catastrophic oil spill in California ranks as one of the worst in decades
  • Senate confirms Tracy Stone-Manning as Bureau of Land Management in party-line vote
  • Northern California’s newest wolf pack welcomes first litter of 7 pups
  • Lawyer Steven Donziger gets six-month sentence for contempt in Chevron battle
  • Federal judge overturns sale of Colorado public lands for fracking
  • USFWS formally reinstates the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
  • Crows are capable of conscious thought
  • House passes important new protections for whales
  • A $1 million fine didn’t stop US Steel from contaminating Lake Michigan
  • WHO slashes recommended limits for air pollution, which kills 7 million people per year
  • Judge recommends tribe be allowed to hunt gray whales off Washington State
  • Vast area of Scottish Highlands to be rewilded in ambitious 30-year project
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Conservation News ~ 1 October 2021

10/1/2021

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  • ​"Biden, Congress Face Big Week For Agenda, Government Funding"
  • COP26 Climate Talks Won't Fulfil Aims Of Paris Agreement, Leaders Warn
  • "The Cost of Insuring Expensive Waterfront Homes Is About to Skyrocket"
  • Children Face More Climate Disasters Than Their Grandparents: Research
  • Defense Bill Would Require 'Forever Chemical' Testing At Military Sites
  • Young Climate Activists Join Greta Thunberg For Major Strikes Worldwide
  • "PG&E Charged With Manslaughter For Sparking California Wildfire"
  • "Biden Appoints 6 to Arctic Research Commission"
  • "Tribe Wins Major Step Toward Resuming Whaling Off Washington"
  • "See the Dozens of Offshore Oil Spills Caused by Hurricane Ida"
  • New Zealand developer denies key role in giant palm oil project in Indonesia
  • Black-footed ferrets riding out COVID-19 with a vaccine and a lot of TLC
  • Rare Florida butterfly bounces back, offers lesson for saving other critters
  • UOG student discovers new algae species in Micronesia
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