Conservation News ~ 19 March 2021

• Mexican Gray Wolf Numbers Rose to 186 in 2020
• Mexico spurns endangered porpoise, may seek to blame US
• Regal new raptor-like dinosaur, complete with feathers, discovered in Spain
• Newly named ant species has a Missouri S&T connection
• Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
• Scaling up tree nurseries is key to unlocking U.S. reforestation potential: Study
• When a tree falls in the forest, it’s the birds that don’t make a sound, study finds
• Rare black jaguars caught on camera in Panama
• Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon
• Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction
• Amid South China Sea dispute, Philippines’ Palawan is besieged by political split
• Fossil Fuels Are Wildly More Expensive Than Previously Thought, Study Says
• New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions
• Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)
• Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo
• Pig nest-building promotes tree diversity in tropical forest: Study
• Countries Tried to Curb Trade in Plastic Waste. The US Is Shipping More
• Environmental Justice Plays Key Role in Biden Covid-19 Stimulus Package
• "Western States Chart Diverging Paths As Water Shortages Loom"
• "A 'Poster Child' For Policy Failure: Will EPA Ban Asbestos?"
• Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight Rising Sea?
• Texas GOP Lawmakers Push Bill To Punish Fossil Fuel Disinvestments
• "Is the ‘Legacy’ Carbon Credit Market a Climate Plus or Just Hype?"
• "Contaminated Aquarium Moss Balls May Unleash a Zebra Mussel Plague"
• "Climate Change: 'Forever Plant' Seagrass Faces Uncertain Future"
• "Wild Population Of Endangered Mexican Wolves Keeps Growing"
• Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
• Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years'
• Other States Seek to Emulate Wisconsin’s Wolf Massacre
• Indigenous People Not Invited to UN Biodiversity Talks
• Nonprofit moves forward with lawsuit to protect Hawaiian honeycreeper
• Philadelphia calls for 'lights out' after skyscrapers cause hundreds of bird deaths
• World’s oldest forest found in New York state​
• COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts - IUCN publication
• VIRGINIA JUST BECAME THE 4TH STATE TO BAN COSMETIC ANIMAL TESTING
• Argentina's Environment Minister: "We have to demand climate finance"
• Secrets Of Humanity’s Closest Hibernating Relative Could Pave Way For Space Flight And Surgery
• Deb Haaland confirmed to lead Interior in historic vote
• Wildlife Rescuers Saved A Baby Orangutan Named Bomban From Life In A Tiny Cage
• No evidence Covid leaked from a lab but probably emerged from wildlife trade, say WHO scientists
• State Habitat Restoration Project Breaks Ground at Southern End of Salton Sea
• "New E.P.A. Head Says Agency Has Climate Regulations Underway"
• Biden To Name Former DC Solicitor To Lead DOJ Environmental Division
• Congress Launches Probe Into Multibillion-Dollar 'Clean Coal' Tax Credit
• CDC Identifies Trump Health Guidance That Downplayed Pandemic Severity
• "SEC To Weigh Requiring Further Climate Disclosures To Investors"
• "EPA Issues Interstate Air Pollution Rule Fix for Summer Ozone"
• "Maryland Senate Passes Climate Act By Wide Margin"
• "Redlined, Now Flooding"
• Cold War Ice Core Reveals Greenland Was Recently Ice-Free
• Males give up on trying to attract females when they are in poor condition, study finds
• Hong Kong Architects Convert Plastic Waste into Public Benches to Combat Pollution
• An ‘Eco-Friendly’ Danish Company Is Outsourcing Pollution to West Virginia, Locals Say
• Champions of French social housing win the 'Nobel of architecture' with a mantra of: "Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!"
• GameStop Redditors are using their stock winnings to adopt gorillas
• Extinct Guam Kingfisher Provides Blueprint For Reintroducing Other Long-Lost Animals
• "Chevron Faces an FTC Complaint Over Greenwashing"
• "The Rock Standing in the Way of China’s Climate Ambitions: Coal"
• State AGs Challenge Trump-Era Rollback Of Energy Efficiency Standards
• As Arctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Maximum, Concern Grows Over Polar Ice Loss
• Natural But Deadly: Huge Gaps in US Rules For Wood-Stove Smoke Exposed
• "First Microwave-Powered Home Boiler Could Help Cut Emissions"
• NOAA’s Tsunami Sensors Went Down Before Anniversary Of Japan Disaster
• "Biden’s DOJ Environment Pick Has Extensive Litigation Record"
• "As Endangered Birds Lose Their Songs, They Can’t Find Mates"
• "Senators Strike Early Bipartisan Tone On Infrastructure"
• Endangered bats are target of federal forest program in Pennsylvania
• JBS, other Brazil meatpackers linked to devastating Pantanal fires, Greenpeace says
• Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings
• King Coal: How Indonesia became the fossil fuel’s final frontier
• Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands
• As Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss: Studies
• Scientists Find New Invasive Mosquito Species In Florida
• New plant species found in Chittoor
• Endangered whales having a baby boom off East Coast
• One of the Nation’s Largest Pipelines Caused the Biggest Spill in Decades–And We’re Just Hearing About It
• Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say
• Extinct Guam Kingfisher Provides Blueprint For Reintroducing Other Long-Lost Animals
• Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf Found Dead in Arizona
• Feeding cattle seaweed reduces their greenhouse gas emissions 82 percent
• New species of mint family found in northern Myanmar
• Global warming helps invasive species flourish - study models likely combined effects on ecosystems
• Electric Semi Trucks Are Actually Cheaper Per Mile Than Diesel Trucks, Report Finds
• CHINA IS ROLLING OUT AN ENORMOUS “WEATHER MODIFICATION” SYSTEM
• “Astonishing reduction” in bird habitats found in Colombia
• Biden Administration Wants Financial Sector To Face Up To Climate Risk
• "New EPA Chief Michael Regan Vows Assault on Environmental Injustice"
• Last Texas Utility Commissioner Resigns After Leaked Call Pledging Profits
• Low-income and Latino Neighborhoods Endure More Extreme Heat in SW
• "EV Turning Point: Momentum Builds for US Electric Vehicle Transition"
• "Revealed: Seafood Fraud Happening On A Vast Global Scale"
• Company Wants To Mine Gold Near Death Valley. Tribes Are Fighting It
• Geoengineering: 8 States Are Tweaking The Weather (It Might Not Work)
• "'Environmental Racism'? Tenn. Pipeline Sparks Uproar"
• Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent
• How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
• Elizabeth Warren and AOC Lay Down Climate Challenge to Biden
• Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
• Female wild bonobos provide care for infants outside their social group
• Deforestation in Indonesia hits record low, but experts fear a rebound
• Wildfire smoke canceled out clean air gains in 2020
• Thailand says $11m seized in wildlife trafficking sting
• The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act was just reintroduced into Congress
• Two men bust for huge abalone haul, forfeit Land Rover to the state
• Rhino poacher gets 18 years imprisonment
• Kew Gardens director hits back at claims it is ‘growing woke’
• Feds say manatees weren’t endangered – now they’re dying in droves
• Gigantic stone ‘tiger stripes’ etched across Ethiopia pose an ancient mystery
• Endangered Gazelles make a comeback on the edge of a war zone
• Seventeen ‘extinct’ European plant species found alive
• 70 orcas target young blue whale in four-hour killing orgy of WA coast
• A Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss
• Nestle and Unilever demand that EU outlaw caged eggs
• Old-growth logging continues as BCs commitments to change slip
• Food waste could power the jet engines we’re currently flying with
• Congressman floats $33B plan to demolish four dams
• Greenland’s ice melted away at least once in last million years
• Study finds plants would grow well in solar cell greenhouses
• Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings
• Half the country is now considering right to repair laws
• Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard
• Everglades poised for a phenomenal wading bird season with right water balance
• Neanderthals helped create early human art
• Opponents suspect environmental racism in pipeline project
• No elephants poached in Mana Pools National Park
• Model predicts urban development and greenhouses gasses will fuel urban floods
• Neanderthals may have hibernated – this could hold a key to space travel
• Elon Musk’s Tesla lobbied UK to raise tax on petrol and diesel
• Elk management in Montana shows the blind spots of our North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
• Microbes unknown to science discovered on the International Space Station
• Many deep-sea microbes invisible to Mammalian Immune System
• US lawyer Steven Donziger speaks from House Arrest in NYC after suing Chevron for Amazon Oil spills
• Oaks adapt drought resistance to local conditions
• Arctic walrus takes a nap on an iceberg, wakes up in Ireland
• Ancient Earth really was a serene water world
• UF students protest future McCarty Woods development
• Black-throated Trogon comprises five species
• BC scientists discover potential new mushroom species on Garry Oak roots
• Endangered newborn foal makes debut at Florida zoo
• Experts race to save Chinese white dolphin spotted in south China river
• Texas cold stun of 2021 was largest sea turtle rescue in history
• Bitcoin’s jawdropping energy consumption rivals London
• China no longer requires animal testing on most imported cosmetics
• Wolf collared in Banff killed in US after sudden 500-kilometre migration to Montana
• Washington Supreme Court grants case arguing state forests must be managed for ‘all the people’
• Developer agrees to halt work, temporarily, near San Marcos Foothills Preserve
• Judge rules in favor of Coastal Commission in Los Cerritos Wetlands case
• First-ever study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggest the forest is worsening climate change