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Conservation News ~ 21 January 2022

1/21/2022

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  • ‘We’re making babies’: After years in decline, Okanagan salmon are back
  • An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest fish breeding ground
  • Newport Beach philanthropists donate $50 million to wildlife corridor in Tehachapi Mountains
  • Large herbivores may improve an ecosystem’s carbon persistence
  • Elephants dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
  • New chief scientist, Katherine Calvine, wants NASA to be about climate science, no just space
  • Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
  • Predator species help to buffer climate change impacts on biodiversity
  • Half this year’s little penguin chicks on WA’s Penguin Island wiped out as colony dwindles
  • Conservation groups sue regulators, pharmaceutical company over crab pens
  • Gabon minister suspends shrimp fishery and expels purse seiner that tormented two humpback whales
  • 93-year-old nature-lover donates the island he protected for decades
  • Lawsuit challenges Point Reyes Ranching, Elk-Killing plan
  • New Mexico releases Wildlife Corridors Action Plan
  • Prince Williams seeks nominees for $1 million Earthshot prize
  • China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature
  • Australian researchers baffled as endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens breed outside season
  • More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
  • Snow Leopard at Illionois Zoo dies after contracting Covid
  • World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time
  • NY governor backs nation’s first statewide gas ban
  • Anubis, the Mexican gray wolf, was shot and killed
  • 'Highly unusual': new species of earthworm discovered in Broken Hill, Australia
  • New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis
  • In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change
  • By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean
  • A jaguar refuge in Mexico is an ecological island in the midst of threats
  • Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar
  • Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation
  • Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms
  • Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)
  • Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest
  • Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters
  • In untangling a taxonomic web, Sri Lankan researchers describe seven new jumping spiders
  • 1st Images Of Tonga Damage Show Entire Communities Covered In Thick Ash
  • "Federal Pipeline Agency Shifts Focus To Cut Methane"
  • "China's Coal Production Hit Record Levels in 2021"
  • 150 Ex-EPA Staffers Ask Virginia Lawmakers To Oppose Wheeler Nomination
  • "DOT To Allot $27B To Fix Bridges, Ensure Climate Resilience"
  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change
  • "Plastic Crisis Needs Binding Treaty, Report Says"
  • "Science Is Trying To Conserve The Monarch Butterfly’s Forests"
  • "Elephants Dying From Eating Plastic Waste in Sri Lankan Dump"
  • Big Discovery Beneath Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony
  • "Drinking Water, Ash Big Concern As Tonga Assesses Damage After Tsunami"
  • "Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons Of Diesel Near New Orleans"
  • "Clean Water Act Policy Could Spur Widespread Disarray"
  • "Finland, Sweden And Norway To Cull Wolf Population"
  • "Supreme Court Shot-Or-Test Rule Freeze Hits Agency Powers"
  • "Biden Nominates Climate Champ As Fed’s Bank Cop"
  • "Lead Ammo Hampers The Bald Eagle Rebound in the Northeast US"
  • "Scottish Auction For Offshore Windfarm Permits Expected To Raise £860m"
  • "Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon Gold Seeps Into Supply Chains"
  • "Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger."
  • "US Plans $50B Wildfire Fight Where Forests Meet Civilization"
  • "Interior Reveals Plans For Orphan Well Cleanup"
  • Ecuador Expands Protections Around Galápagos, Makes Highway For Sea Life
  • "How Coal Holds On In America"
  • How Utility Convinced Georgia to Let It Bury Toxic Waste in Groundwater
  • "Tightened Federal Water Protections Won’t Slow Some Projects"
  • "Inside The Effort To Uncage A Bipartisan Wildlife Bill"
  • "Power Companies Back EPA Climate Authority At Supreme Court"
  • "Here’s What Scientists Know About the Tonga Volcano Eruption"
  • "What Do You Do With An Invasive Army Of Crayfish Clones?"
  • US plans $50B wildfire fight where forests meet suburbia
  • New lizard species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Scientists discover tarantula-killing worms: New parasite named after actor Jeff Daniels
  • Amid Pandemic, Tribal-Run Conservation in Africa Proves Resilient
  • We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says
  • As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change
  • Pesticides released into Brazil’s Amazon to degrade rainforest and facilitate deforestation
  • In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure
  • As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout
  • For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)
  • ‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions
  • ‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand
  • Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests
  • In Sri Lanka, a wild cat thrives in the unlikely urban jungle of Colombo
  • In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods
  • Bare-faced curassows return to Argentina’s Iberá after 50-year absence
  • Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report
  • 7 Latin American primate species among the 25 most endangered in the world
  • A new species of tarantula discovered by Thai YouTube star
  • "Biden Resets BBB: ‘I Think We Can Break The Package Up’"
  • "Committee OKs Wildlife Bill, But Partisan Divisions Remain"
  • 450+ Scientists Call On PR Firms To Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Clients
  • Winter Gas Bill From Hell: Oklahomans Face Paying $1.4Bn Over Snowstorm
  • "What Canada Wants To Do With Its Decades-Old Pileup Of Nuclear Waste"
  • "National Monument Proposed For Nevada Site Sacred To Tribes"
  • "After Rain Burst, California Salmon Reclaim Old Spawnaing Grounds"
  • Corps To Focus On Supply Chain, Climate Change With $14B In Spending
  • Florida’s Red Tides Worsened by Pollution, Climate Change
  • Exxon Using An Unusual Law To Intimidate Critics Over Its Climate Denial
  • Gators fouled by diesel spill get a scrubbing, teeth cleaned
  • Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti
  • Oregon Zoo has first California Condor egg of 2022
  • Haven’t been seen for 25 years – rains bring salmon back to California streams
  • Asiatic cheetah Homino spotted in Bafgh for 1st time in years
  • Seeing 1,000 glorious fin whales back from near extinction is a rare glimmer of hope
  • ‘Rural women in Zimbabwe are in constant contact with climate change’: Q&A with Shamiso Mupara
  • At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero
  • Study finds resilient, frequent-fire forests have far fewer trees
  • "‘Build Back Better’ Hit a Wall, but Climate Action Could Move Forward"
  • VP Harris To Announce Wildfire Money In Visit To California On Friday
  • New Research Shows Health Risks to Children Mount as Temperatures Rise
  • "White House Tees Up Historic $1B Everglades Funding"
  • "A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway."
  • "Peru: 21 Beaches Polluted By Spill Linked To Tonga Eruption"
  • Iowa, Texas GOPers Brag on Biden Infrastructure Bill They Opposed
  • Report IDs Big Box Stores as Opportunity for Rooftop Solar
  • "Bipartisan Lawmakers Announce Climate Adaptation Bill"
  • Explorers Discover Pristine Coral Reef That Could Hold Climate Lessons
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