Conservation News ~ 1 January 2021

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