Conservation News ~ 15 July 2022

• Officially extinct butterfly ‘making a comeback’ in UK
• Amazon deforestation is off to the fastest start to a year since 2008
• For women on Bangladesh’s coast, rising seas pose a reproductive health dilemma
• ‘We have advanced, but with much pain’: Q&A with Indigenous leader José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal
• Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal
• BP exploited Mexican communities hoping to benefit from carbon credits: report
• Amazonian communities in Peru try to keep oil-rich Block 64 in their own hands
• Under Bolsonaro policy, invaders seize control of 250,000 hectares of Indigenous lands
• Myanmar wildlife trade remains opaque, despite focus on border hubs
• On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)
• Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests
• Tree plantations in Patagonia are the site of wildfires and land dispute
• Vietnam targets US$5.5bln in agro, forestry, fishery export value to EU
• Seven new tropical forest ferns found hiding in plain sight
• New species of Miliusa spotted in Agasthyamala
• Endangered Species Act Rollbacks Reversed After Animal Legal Defense Fund Lawsuit
• Australia's greater glider now an endangered species
• "Yosemite Wildfire Is Latest Threat To Giant Sequoia Trees"
• "EPA Seen as Prepared for Big Challenges Ahead of Carbon Rules"
• "Biden Admin Signals Support for Controversial Alaska Oil Project"
• "Wild Species Relied On By Billions At Risk, Report Warns"
• "Summer In America Is Becoming Hotter, Longer And More Dangerous"
• "Amazon Deforestation Hits New Record In Brazil"
• Peter Dykstra Column: "Climate Change Denial And Me"
• DOE Unveils $40M For Electricity, Weatherization In Low-Income Communities
• "A Whale Feeding Frenzy in Antarctica Signals a Conservation Success"
• "Huge Underground Search For Mysterious Dark Matter Begins"
• Study suggests pocket gophers may be the only other mammal that farms
• Researchers Derive New Method for Turning Plant Materials Into Better Green Energy
• "Europe’s New Heat Wave Is Going To Be Expensive"
• Australian Prime Minister Pledges 'New Era' of Climate Action Under Labor
• "US Cruise Ships Using Canada as a 'Toilet Bowl' for Polluted Waste"
• "World Population Day: India Will Overtake China In 2023, Says The UN"
• Record-Breaking Seafood Production Must See ‘Blue Transformation’: FAO
• First Climate Agreement To Center Indigenous Voices Gains Support
• "Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bid To Block All-Electric Building Codes"
• "Green Groups Push Senate To Confirm EPA Enforcement Chief"
• "Texas Grid Avoids Blackouts With Voluntary Cutbacks Amid Scorching Heat"
• "Biden and NASA Share First Webb Space Telescope Image"
• In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish
• Protected areas not exempt as blast fishing blows up in Sri Lanka
• Inside Sierra Leone’s Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (video)
• Record-breaking seafood production must undergo a ‘blue transformation’: FAO
• Space: New frontier for climate change & commodification, or conservation? (commentary)
• Colorful new corals bedeck the busy waters off Hong Kong, study shows
• Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact
• World's Most Endangered Whales Move Closer to Expanded Habitat Protections off Alaskan Coast
• New hawk moth species are among the smallest ever discovered
• "Manchin, Playing to the Home Crowd, Is Fighting Electric Cars to the End"
• "NOAA: Breaching Snake River Dams ‘Essential’ To Save Salmon"
• "Midwest Wind Energy Transmission Line Gets Supersized"
• "Dangerous Heat Wave Strikes China"
• "OIG Chides Former Zinke Aide But Finds No Ethics Violation"
• Caregivers of Seniors, Disabled Trained for Climate Disasters
• "Wealthy N.Y. Areas Called ‘Disadvantaged’ For Climate Aid"
• "Science Offers Basis For National Climate Damage Claims - Study"
• "Hawaii National Park Gets Land Where Ancient Villages Stood"
• "Scientists Design Contraceptives To Limit Grey Squirrels"
• California cities ban new gas stations in battle to combat climate change
• These charts show how California is generating energy differently than a decade ago
• Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production
• As blackouts loom, PG&E changes tune about shutting California’s last nuclear plant
• Will OC’s Green Energy Agency Release the Findings of CEO Whistleblower Complaint Investigation?
• Why the Supreme Court ruling won’t help coal
• This Virtual Power Plant Is Trying to Tackle a Housing Crisis and an Energy Crisis All at Once
• Save the Climate by Improving Jobs
• MCE Reports Almost 150% Increase in Energy Efficiency in 2021
• Orange County Power Authority Makes Five Key Hires
• France will require Ph.D.s to take a research ethics oath
• Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet
• Bringing Back the Beasts: Global Rewilding Plans Take Shape
• As Industry Tightens Its Grip, Horseshoe Crabs Finally Have Safe Haven in Cape Romain
• Endangered amphibian species reintroduced in Colorado
• New species of Begonia found in Gaoligong Mountains
• Genomic research supports recognizing new scrub jay species in Texas and Mexico
• Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations
• Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows
• Can we save the Leuser Ecosystem? | Chasing Deforestation
• Displaced by a dam, women defenders fight for their land rights in Colombia
• Sighting of an American black vulture in Nepal causes a flutter
• Podcast: ‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?
• Why World's First Malaria Shot Won't Reach Millions Of Children Who Need It
• "Extreme Heat Blasting Western Europe Could Set All-Time Record In U.K."
• "Haaland Defends Interior Policies, Cites Unused Leases"
• "EPA Faces Legal Dead Ends After SCOTUS Climate Decision"
• "Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production"
• "White House Environmental Permit Helper Sees Applications Rise"
• Canada's Climate Minister: "From ‘Green Jesus’ To ‘Radical Pragmatist’
• "NIH: Common Chemicals Linked To Preterm Births"
• "Once Nearly Extinct, Bison Are Now Climate Heroes"
• Oregon Farmers Test Drive Electric Tractors in the Name of Science
• Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm
• Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns
• Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs
• With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land
• $245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia
• In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?
• Community-based seed banks in Nepal help conserve native species
• Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study
• Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)
• New species of fungi unknown to science discovered in Scotland's Cairngorm mountains
• New research reveals mutation responsible for disease resistance in Cassava
• Secretary Haaland Announces Expansion of National Wildlife Lost Trail Conservation Area
• Elusive fox that threatened Phillip Island’s little penguins caught after two-month hunt
• CRISPR plants can combat climate change
• "How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan"
• Biden Is Losing His Base on Climate Change, a New Pew Poll Finds
• "Biden Set to Leave Saudi Arabia With No Announcement on Oil"
• "A Big Bipartisan Wildlife Bill Could Be Headed to Biden's Desk"
• "Officials Suggest Pipeline Company Hid Problems After Spill"
• "As Europe Bakes In Heatwave, Wildfires Rage From Portugal To Croatia"
• "Washington Set To Be 2nd East Coast City With Gas Ban"
• "Lawmakers Warn EPA of Several Risks From Chemical Recycling"
• Biggest U.S. Cryptominers Use as Much Power as Houston, Findings Show
• "US Solicits Help As It Defines Old Growth And Mature Forests"
• Barbie unveils new Dr. Jane Goodall doll in honor of 88-year-old conservationist
• 107 critically endangered sea turtle eggs found in Texas State Park
• Researchers rediscover oak tree thought to be extinct
• Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples