Conservation News ~ 13 August 2021

• Cutting Carbon Pollution Quickly Would Save About 74 Million Lives, Study Finds
• Fracking Dumped Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Into The Gulf, According To Report
• African wild dogs return to southern Malawi for the first time in 20 years
• In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found
• Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show
• New report provides road map for expanding chestnut agroforestry in the U.S.
• Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research
• One of South America’s most abundant felids: Geoffroy’s cat
• Endangered Orcas' West Coast Habitat Receives New Federal Protection
• In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found
• Iran's Ex-Environment Chief Says Khuzestan Wetlands Dried For Oil
• 40 amphibians, 30 reptiles discovered in Silent Valley, India
• After Months Of Work, Senators Unveil $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
• "China, India Miss UN Deadline To Update Emissions Targets"
• "EPA Outlines Plan To Expand Wetland Protections"
• "Athletes Battle Tokyo Summer As Staff Suffer Heat Illness"
• Brain Drain Among Federal Scientists Bogs Down Biden Climate Ambitions
• Climate Groups Plan Make-or-Break Blitz Over Congressional Recess
• "Fighting Fire With Fire"
• "Sewage Equity? In Alabama, Trust Is As Important As Pipes."
• "Washington's Orca Whale Pods Receive New Federal Habitat Protection"
• New Report Provides Map For Expanding Chestnut Agroforestry In The U.S.
• DU researcher discovers new species of frogs, names it after former VC
• "Interior Kicks Off New Review of ANWR Drilling"
• "Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Wouldn’t Remove All Lead Pipes"
• Dems Seek $500 Billion in Climate Damages From Big Polluting Companies
• "The Fight to Change US Building Codes"
• "Melting Ice Imperils 98% Of Emperor Penguin Colonies By 2100"
• "Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone 10 Times Bigger Than Lake Pontchartrain"
• "Energy Department Targets Trump Rollbacks On Appliance Efficiency"
• "Seven-Figure Ad Campaign Urges GOP To Support Infrastructure Bill"
• "This Year’s Summer Of Climate Extremes Hits Wealthier Places"
• "Bubonic Plague In Chipmunks Forces Closure Of Top Lake Tahoe Sites"
• Climate In Infrastructure Bill: A Substantial Investment In Resilience
• EPA Announces New Members Of Science Board After Firing Trump Appointees
• Scientists Find New, More Dangerous Climate Threat in Thawing Permafrost
• "Wanted: EPA Carbon Rule That Can Survive In Court"
• "With Time Ticking Down, Hope Is Waning for a Climate Deal"
• "A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause?"
• "How FERC’s Environmental Justice Push Might Backfire"
• "BLM Plans Emergency Wild Horse Gathers Amid Extreme Drought"
• Louisiana Trying To Save Island Used By Jean Lafitte
• Rising Seas Could Kill The Oldest Tree In Eastern US
• Emperor Penguins Proposed for Listing Under Endangered Species Act
• One of rarest animals in America, Sierra Nevada red fox, named newest endangered species
• Great Barrier Reef: New species of coral discovered
• A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security
• Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia
• For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game
• In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows
• Indonesia assessing fish stock health to improve sustainable planning
• Lack of ID cards bars Indigenous Indonesians from much-needed vaccines
• 333 people rescued from slavery in Brazil mines since 2008, exclusive report shows
• More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban
• Rare pygmy chameleon, lost to science, found in dwindling Malawi forest
• Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn
• Bottom trawling damage revealed: 128 new species end up as by-catch
• 2 Sumatran tigers recovering from COVID-19 at Jakarta zoo
• Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit
• Acquittal of Indonesian villagers protesting pollution marks rare win against SLAPP
• Sharing solutions: How a digital toolkit is strengthening Indigenous voices
• New study says changes in clouds will add to global warming, not curb it
• New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses
• Indonesia’s coal phaseout is just more business as usual, report says
• Coastal Indonesian village adapts to life amid rising tidal floodwaters
• For sea snakes, underwater sex is a washout more often than not
• Endangered bee spotted in Ames for first time in 3 years
• Native clover species being dropped from endangered list
• Environmental impact of bottled water 'up to 3500 times greater than tap water'
• New aroid species found in Myanmar
• Nigeria seizes scales from 15,000 dead pangolins
• Biden Calls For Half Of New Cars To Be Electric Or Plug-In Hybrids By 2030
• Leaked Audio Shows Pressure to Overrule Scientists in “Hair-on-Fire” Cases
• Facebook Let Fossil-Fuel Industry Push Climate Misinformation: Report
• "Climate Change Could Shut Down A Vital Ocean Current, Study Finds"
• "Farm Pesticides Killing More Bees - Study"
• Address Risky Human Activities Now Or Face New Pandemics: Scientists
• DC Plans To Add More Industrial Pollution To Black Community
• Abandoned Oil Gear Blocks Sand Needed To Rebuild Louisiana Coast
• "Biden Announces Record Amount of Climate Resilience Funding"
• "Life On The Houston Fifth Ward’s Plume"
• 98% of emperor penguin colonies could be extinct by 2100 as ice melts
• 'Magnificent and unique': New beetle species named after Sir David Attenborough
• "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us"
• Senate Nears Final Vote On Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill This Week
• "Dixie Fire Explodes To Largest Blaze In US, 3rd Largest In Calif. Ever
• "Study Reveals Effects Of Extreme Heat On Tens Of Millions Of Americans"
• "Something Is Killing Gray Whales. Is It A Sign Of Oceans In Peril?"
• "Warm Waters Further Threaten Depleted Maine Shrimp Fishery"
• Florida Sues Piney Point Over Environmental Disaster, Wants Big Changes
• "Exxon Suspended From Carbon Tax Group In Wake Of Leaked Video Scandal"
• "Drought Hits South American River, Threatening Vast Ecosystem"
• "Barry the Owl, Beloved by NYC Birders, Dies in Central Park Collision"
• Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect their eggs
• Humans’ role in climate warming ‘unequivocal,’ IPCC report shows
• Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation
• "Senate Dems Unveil $3.5 Trillion Budget For Social, Climate Efforts"
• "UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S. Regulation, Litigation"
• "Senate Poised to Pass Infrastructure Deal, Then Turn to Dem Budget"
• Minnesota Blocks Release of Records About Surveilling Pipeline Opponents
• "Carmakers’ EV Pledge Gives Burned Environmentalists Deja Vu"
• Biden FWS Renews Permit Allowing Oil Companies To Disturb Polar Bears
• "Biden Plans ‘Comprehensive’ Assault on Planet-Warming Methane"
• Worst Polluting Countries Must Make Drastic Carbon Cuts: COP26 Chief"
• "Appeals Court Rejects Bayer’s Bid To Overturn Roundup Trial Loss"
• "The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell"
• Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan Funding Climate Programs
• "Senate Approves Bipartisan, $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill"
• "United States of Wildfire"
• Big Oil Spent $10 Million On Facebook Ads Last Year — To Sell What?
• "Is California’s ‘Hydrogen Highway’ A Road To Nowhere?"
• "Soil And Its Promise As A Climate Solution: A Primer"
• "FDA Raises Alarm Over PFAS-Tainted Food Containers"
• "EPA Ordered To Update Rules On Oil Spill-Fighting Chemicals"
• "Biden Officials Push To Hike Lightbulb Efficiency After Trump Reversal"
• From Raft in the Grand Canyon, West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View
• Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon
• Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer
• Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials
• Seed dispersal is just as important as pollination (commentary)
• Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers
• Meet the kitten-sized, clown-faced monkey that’s leaping toward extinction
• New artificial intelligence tool helps forecast Amazon deforestation
• Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease
• Following pandas, Tibetan antelopes off endangered species list in China as population surpasses
• US Wildlife Officials Punt on Foreign Species Protections, Again
• Astonishing Frog-Legged Beetle Fossil Is New Species Named "Attenborough's Beauty"
• Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart
• New spider species named after Mitchell's 'Spiderman'
• Indigenous Brazilians fear surge in violence as ‘land-grab bill’ nears passage
• Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation
• Platform presents unpublished data on Brazilian biodiversity
• UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua
• On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft
• New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop
• Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat
• In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution
• Podcast: What can seashells tell us about the health of the oceans?
• Seychelles magpie robin becomes world’s first ‘digital species’
• Biden-backed ‘blue’ hydrogen may pollute more than coal
• Drought limits the ability for an endangered fish to reach adulthood
• Planting forests may cool the planet more than thought
• A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change
• Researchers discover rare, endangered serow
• The IUCN RedList numbers of species increased134,425 with more than 37,400 threatened with extinction
• Washington state county is first in US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure
• Giraffes have highly complex social lives akin to elephants
• 1 Billion genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the US
• A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery
• Federal government considers Kern County ‘legless’ lizard for endangered species protection
• Two of California’s three wolf packs confirmed to have pups
• US adds 16,000 square miles to protect orcas
• Oregon officials gun down two wolf pups from helicopter to protect cows
• New report provides road map for expanding chestnut agroforestry in the US
• This sponge fossil may be the earliest record of animal life
• In Greenland, enough ice melted on a single day to cover Florida in two inches of water
• Victory for Willamette River Chinook salmon and winter steelhead
• China scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth
• Two rare white orcas are spotted off the coast of Japan
• Earth’s interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought
• "Portland Residents Suffer In Sweltering Pacific Northwest Heat Wave"
• IPCC Understated the Need to Cut Emissions From Methane: Experts
• "Group Cites Chemical Concerns At Military Sites Near Bay"
• Dixie Fire Destroyed Small California Town. Its Residents Remain In Limbo
• "Storm Fred Causes Power Outages In Dominican Republic, Heads To Florida"
• For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Research Raises Doubts
• "Manufacturers Make PFAS-Free Food Packaging Recipe Available To All"
• "The Hard Part: Committee Priorities For Reconciliation"
• "Lawsuit: US Withholding Wildfire Fuel Break Information"
• "The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore"
• Two Major Heat Waves Roast Lower 48; 175 Million Americans Under Alerts
• "Tropical Depression Fred Could Make 'Comeback' Prior To Striking US"
• Sicily Soars To 120 Degrees, Nears Europe All-Time Heat Record
• "Huge California Fire Grows; Montana Blaze Threatens Towns"
• "Biden Asked OPEC To Pump More Oil. Is That Climate Denial?"
• US Climate Official Says Australia’s Climate Targets Are ‘Not Sufficient’
• US Says Syria’s Assad Has Power To Free Journalist Austin Tice
• "The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb"
• "How to Sell ‘Carbon Neutral’ Fossil Fuel That Doesn’t Exist"
• Climate Change Is a ‘Hammer Hitting Us on the Head,’ -- Developing Nations
• In Sri Lanka, biologists and divers build a Facebook for sea turtles
• Amazon forest loss hits second highest level since 2008
• Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers
• ‘Shared earth’ conservation promises to prioritize nature and people
• The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon
• The most widespread pig species on Earth: wild boar | Candid Animal Cam
• Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests
• Geopolitical standoff in South China Sea leads to environmental fallout
• In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms
• Color-changing robo-chameleon showcases promising camouflage tech
• To save salt marshes, researchers deploy a wide arsenal of techniques