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Conservation News ~ 19 March 2021

3/19/2021

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  • 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
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