Conservation News ~ 17 December 2021

• Newly discovered 'groaning' Madagascar red-eyed frog is already endangered
• Incredible new species of wolf spider is discovered on a island off Tasmania
• UWA Professor, Demopolis resident names ninth new plant species
• Two new lizards discovered in South Island
• Florida will begin emergency feeding and rescue of starving manatees
• New Species of Mouse Opossum Discovered in Panama
• Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company
• "Tornadoes Kill Dozens In 5 States; Final Toll Still Unclear"
• "Explainer: Was Tornado Outbreak Related To Climate Change?"
• "EPA Stops Posting ‘Critically Important’ Data on Chemical Risks"
• Coal Powered Industrial Revolution, Left Behind Environmental Catastrophe
• Massive Oil Spill Helped Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years
• "A PR Giant Is Caught Between Climate Pledges and Fossil Fuel Clients"
• "Report: Interior Oil Program Is Wasteful, Outdated"
• "Biden To End Fossil Fuel Financing Abroad"
• "Nebraska Decarbonization Vote Was Years In The Making"
• Plea to Make 'Ecocide' an International Crime Takes Stage at The Hague
• Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study
• Mongabay Explains: Do carbon offset markets really work?
• For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up
• Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says
• Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health
• Boosting human and machine expertise with conservation tech: Q&A with Sara Beery
• Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil
• An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience
• Climate efforts won’t succeed without secure community rights, says Nonette Royo
• "Study: Winter Tornadoes To Get More Powerful As World Warms"
• Biden Admin Was Not Legally Bound To Auction Gulf Drilling Rights
• "Watchdog: Federal Anti-Terror Unit Investigated Journalists"
• Russia Vetoes UN Resolution Linking Climate Change, Security
• "Crucial Antarctic Ice Shelf Could Fail Within 5 Years, Scientists Say"
• "White House Rolls Out $7.5B Electric Vehicle Charging Plan"
• "California Proposes Big Changes To Rooftop Solar Incentives"
• Officials Underestimating PFAS Chemicals Lurking in US Food: Scientists
• "Where Is Biden’s Pick For Mine Reclamation Chief?"
• La. Plant Has Been Spewing Sulfur Dioxide For Years; Now EPA Will Act
• Brazil builds monkey bridge to help endangered species cross road
• Biden administration considers removing whooping cranes from endangered species list
• New species of bacteria named after Singapore
• Biology student in Leiden discovers new species of shrimp: 'a dream come true'
• In Bakersfield, many push for bringing back the flow of the long-dry Kern River
• "Biden Set To Tour Kentucky Communities Devastated By Tornadoes"
• High Rates Of Methane Spewing From Permian Oilfield Operations: Report
• 8 Feet Of Snow Possible In Mountains As Powerful Storm Lashes California
• "Trends in Arctic Report Card: ‘Consistent, Alarming and Undeniable’"
• What We Know, And Don’t, About Effects Of Climate Change On Tornadoes
• "Manchin Huddle With Biden Fails To Break Impasse"
• "Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm"
• "Coal Interests Press Supreme Court To Limit EPA Reach"
• "A Key Tool for Cleaning Up Oil Spills Is More Hazardous Than Helpful"
• "N.Y.C.’s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen"
• Azure-tailed Skink Rediscovered On Hawaiʻi Island
• Biden's FWS Plans to Weaken Protections for Four Endangered Species
• Decade-old photographs shared on social media give away a new species of pygmy grasshopper
• Indonesian peat restoration has more benefits than it costs, study finds
• Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests
• Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds
• French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain
• Madagascar gemstone rush puts a wetland and its community under pressure
• First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra
• In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders
• China’s pivot from funding coal plants to gasification slammed as more of the same
• Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands
• ‘Cooling the climate for 10,000 years’: How saving wetlands can help save the world
• Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula: Video
• In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining
• Democrats’ $2 Trillion Spending Plan In Political Peril As Talks Snag
• "States Volunteer To Take More Cuts In Colorado River Water"
• Enviros Call For Stronger EPA Action On Falsified Chemical Assessments
• Sen. Warren Asks SEC To Investigate Compensation At Fossil Fuel Giants
• "Trump Showerhead Rule On More Water Flow Goes Down The Drain"
• "Tornadoes, 100 MPH Winds Rip Off Roofs, Cut Power in Plains and Midwest
• Dene Oppose Federal Regulations To Release Oilsands Tailings Water
• "Corps Withdraws Decision Allowing Yazoo Pumps Flood Control Project"
• "Montana Advances Grizzly Bear Plans That Could Allow Hunting"
• "Volunteers Are Growing Oyster Gardens To Help Restore Reefs"
• New species of dwarf catfish found in Nagaland
• Unique Indigenous Maya food system blends cropping techniques in Guatemala
• Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree
• Barrage of droughts weakens Amazon’s capacity to bounce back, study finds
• Biden Admin Promises Stricter Regulation of Lead in Drinking Water
• "Unusual Hurricane-Force Winds Sweep Midwest, Leaving 5 Dead"
• Google Pledged to Remove Ads From Climate Deniers, but Many Still Run
• "The U.S. Has So Many Oil Pipelines, Half of Them Are Sitting Empty"
• Amplify Energy And Subsidiaries Charged In Orange County Oil Spill
• "Federal Bank Regulator Proposes First Climate Risk Guidance"
• Manchin Rejects Offshore Drilling Ban Amid Broader Standoff Over Bill
• "How Politics Are Determining What Stove You Use"
• "Biden Admin Clears Way For N.Y. Offshore Wind Leases"
• "EPA IG Adds Muscle For Tracking Infrastructure Cash"
• The first true millipede: new species with more than 1000 legs discovered in Western Australia
• Vehicle emission declines decreased deaths
• Portugal creates Europe’s largest marine protected area
• New York is the largest city in the US banning natural gas in new buildings
• At least 16 women come forward to allege 'sexual harassment and abuse' at Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute
• Great Britain set to ban import of hunting trophies
• In a red state Nebraska plans to decarbonize power sector by mid-century
• Most endangered cat in Americas found living on outskirts of Chilean capital
• ‘Everyone is capable’ of climate action, say Kevin Patel and Julia Jackson
• Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds
• As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom
• Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet
• Deep-sea mining regulator’s latest meeting on rules only muddies the water
• Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal
• How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species
• Bobcat caught on camera trap | Candid Animal Cam
• Indonesians protesting against mines run growing risk of ‘criminalization’
• European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu
• Can a new wave of climate fiction inspire climate action? (commentary)
• Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding
• 2019 fires in Indonesia were twice as bad as the government claimed, study shows
• Where does the Greater Mekong’s illegal timber go?
• As Ethiopia’s war rages, a 400-year-old conservation site is scarred by battle
• The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series
• Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní