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Conservation News ~ 13 August 2021

8/13/2021

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  • 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
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