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Conservation News ~ 11 December 2020

12/11/2020

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  • New ‘sea dragon’ species discovered by an amateur fossil hunter off English coast
  • New species are more likely to evolve in areas where few already exist
  • Biden gets earful from progressives on environment jobs
  • NMFS extends East Coast vessel speed limits to protect right whales
  • Federal government looks to open up dunes sagebrush lizard habitat to oil and gas
  • Giant Manta becomes first Manta ray to be listed as an endangered species
  • Earth is still sailing into climate chaos but its course could shift
  • Herd opportunity: hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga
  • Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth’s biological mass extinctions
  • Ecuador finds nest of huge, endangered sea turtle
  • Only 40% of world’s forest have high ecological integrity, a new index reveals
  • Court rejects White House Arctic drilling proposal in ‘Huge Victory for Polar Bears and our Climate’
  • Turkish fishermen offered bounty for silver-checked toadfish
  • Human-made materials now outweigh Earth’s entire biomass
  • Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river
  • The wild population of European Bison has grown to over 6,200
  • New study helps pinpoint when earth’s plate subduction began
  • New species of iridescent snake discovered in Vietnam
  • Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort dunes lose special environment status
  • Green Recovery from COVID can slow climate change
  • Endangered woodpecker species recovering two years after Hurricane Michael
  • Monarch butterfly endangered decision nears as numbers dwindle
  • Sea Shepherd discover new whale species in Mexico
  • Oregon land board moves forward on Elliot State research forest proposal
  • $14 million from the USAID to develop ecotourism in the Noubale-Ndoki park
  • Wetland stakeholders develop a management plan for the wise use and conservation of the Bang Pakong River
  • IUCN promotes resilience in the face of pandemic impacts in Mexico, Central America and Caribbean
  • IUCN launches the Global Standard for Nature-Based Solutions in Asia
  • Paul Sein Twa, co-founder of KESAN and Salween Peace Park in Myanmar, receives Goldman Environmental Prize
  • In China, public support grows to rein in the wild trade in the wake of the pandemic
  • Dogs in Brazil are being trained to sniff out COVID in humans
  • Deep=sea ‘gold rush’: secretive plans to carve up the seabird decried
  • New York’s $225 Billion Pension Fund is dropping fossil fuel stocks
  • Shift to a not-so-frozen north is well underway, scientists warn
  • Ahead of anticipated US climate treaty return, Norway boosts support for rainforest protection
  • Lizards and snakes bring halt to work on Tesla plant near Berlin
  • Coalition calls on Service to maintain endangered status for red-cockaded woodpecker
  • Bald eagles are no longer endangered in Vermont, experts say, after 30 years of recovery
  • First babies of endangered whale species born off Florida, Georgia
  • Reptiles smuggled from Mexico found at German airport stitched inside dolls
  • Deforestation wiped out 8% of Amazon in 18 years
  • Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department
  • Coca-cola, Pepsi and Nestle named top plastic polluters for third year in a row
  • Investors can now trade water futures
  • Money to burn – study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work
  • Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia
  • New study finds Humboldt Bay is among the most important places in the entire hemisphere for migratory shorebirds
  • Loose DNA in seawater offers a new measure of marine populations
  • The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
  • House passes bill to ban exploitation of Big Cats
  • EPA overrides scientists’ calls for tougher pollutant limit
  • Breakthrough material makes pathway to hydrogen use for fuel cells under hot, dry conditions
  • Scientists discover new species on seafloor
  • New plant species from Amazonia region named after Dresden botanist
  • Animals are using Utah’s largest wildlife overpass earlier than expected
  • International lawyers draft plan to criminalize ecosystem destruction
  • Mount Everest: China and Nepal agree on new, taller height
  • African ministers of the environment commit to support a greed COVID recovery plan
  • Gharials bounce back in Punjab but the real test is breeding
  • Rare Pygmy Possums just got rediscovered after fears that bushfires wiped them out
  • Natural selection plays major role in an organism’s capacity to evolve and adapt
  • EU renewables energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected area
  • Worker feared dead as landslide hits quake-prone dam in orangutan habitat
  • Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
  • Biological diversity evokes happiness
  • French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation
  • Sale of Arctic Refuge oil and gas leases in set for early January
  • Plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production
  • New frog genus found in Andaman Islands
  • On the hunt for alternatives to shark squalene vaccines
  • Rare Nevada plant damaged by wild animals, not humans, feds say
  • Study shows promising material can store solar energy for months or years
  • 17 sentenced to imprisonment for illegal trade in wildlife products
  • UKs first all-electric car charging forecourt opens in Essex
  • Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’ urges UN agriculture agency chief
  • Climate crisis to triple flooding threat low-income US homes by 2050
  • A grassroots push to save disappearing birds and bees forces change in Germany
  • National Zoo’s panda cub takes first steps
  • Endangered Sea Turtles are recovering after ‘cold stunning’ event
  • Madagascar moves to reopen domestic trade in non-precious timber
  • LA began 2020 with a clean-air streak but ended with its worst smog in decades
  • Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry
  • The Greenland Ice Sheet is fast losing mass and there may be no way to stop it
  • In rare show of solidarity, 14 key nations commit to protect oceans
  • Africa’s environment ministers pledge support for green COVID recovery
  • Cut fossil fuels production to ward off ‘catastrophic warming
  • Singapore approves sale of cell-based chicken meat
  • Layers of regulations to protect European seas not working, audit finds
  • Overfishing of sharks in the Red Sea sparks outcry
  • 3 major UK retailers are banning glitter this Christmas
  • Nissan leaves White House’s fight against California car rules
  • Blue hydrogen use will boost fossil fuels industry. Ottawa warned
  • Endangered Vancouver Island marmots are making a comeback
  • Japan plans to join the pack and ban sales of new gasoline cars by 2030
  • Whale Sharks huge bodies mean they’ve never really been cold-blooded
  • US Army Corps reports a large oil spill into the Colombia River
  • Two centuries of Monarch butterflies show evolution of wing length
  • Endangered animals threatened by pandemic as ecotourists stay home
  • Every major bank has now ruled out funding Arctic drilling
  • Ecuador finds nest of huge endangered sea turtle
  • Vegan investment fund goes public in Canada
  • New species of Dancing springtail discovered in Krka
  • New species of bat has been found and it flapped around 16 million years ago
  • New marine protection zone will help endangered penguins and more
  • DNR announces wolf season after removal from endangered species list
  • US plans to protect thousands of mils of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean
  • California campgrounds to close when COVID stay at home order starts
  • Offshore drilling set to begin off Florida alarms environmentalists
  • Extremely rare white cougar highlights a quirk of the species
  • Washington whale research group buys ranch to help local orcas
  • White House appoints NOAA climate skeptic to panel selecting National Medal of Science winners
  • KwaZulu-Natal poaching increases since lockdown level 1
  • Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis
  • Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet
  • Colorado High School students post video pleading with local authorities to ban fracking
  • Satellites can see the pollution trails from individual ships
  • Crowds of Indian farmers gather for days to protest new agriculture laws
  • Hidden structure found in essential metabolic machinery
  • Norway bumps rate to protect rainforest amid anticipated US climate return
  • As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
  • Humanity’s construction footprint in the seas amounts to 32,000 square kilometers
  • Common tire chemical implicated in mysterious deaths of at-risk salmon
  • New York state assembly passes ban on toxic chemicals in food packaging
  • UN will build global coalition for carbon neutrality in 2021
  • Minnesota gives final green light to disputed oil pipeline
  • Researchers uncover key clues about the solar system’s history
  • Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
  • A mining company is about to receive sacred Apache land
  • The Great Barrier Reef is now officially in critical condition
  • Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees
  • Up to 48 species saved from extinction by conservation efforts
  • Confiscated parrots fly free again over DR Congo forests
  • Researchers call for restoring human-forest connections in the Boundary Waters
  • China just powered up its artificial sun fusion reactor
  • Scientists just mapped 1 million new galaxies in 300 hours
  • World is doubling down on fossil fuels despite climate crisis
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