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Conservation News ~ 22 January 2021

1/22/2021

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  • New Zealand eagle rays astonish aquarium with mystery births
  • ‘Gas is over’, EU bank chief says
  • Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, of Parrish, Florida, was charged with conspiracy, trafficking and submitting false records
  • Honda had planned to electrify all its European models in 2025. But now they're going for 2022 instead.
  • Scientists are discovering new species in the ancient canopies of Canada’s tallest trees
  • Elon Musk pledges $100 million for carbon capture technology  
  • Six Entrapped Manatees at Pine Island Conservation Area Rescued By Florida Fish and Wildlife    
  • Scientists Just Discovered 3 New Kinds of Carnivorous Sponge in The Deep Ocean
  • UL Lafayette scientists discover new species of hermit crab in Gulf of Mexico
  • BLM approves highway across Washington County's Red Cliffs conservation area
  • "Biden Unveils $1.9T Plan To Stem Covid-19 And Steady Economy"
  • "Nine Michigan Leaders Face Charges in Water Crisis That Roiled Flint"
  • "Toyota to Pay a Record Fine for a Decade of Clean Air Act Violations"
  • "Climate: Federal Regulator Nixes Bank Fossil Fuel Pledges"
  • "Countries Adapting Too Slowly To Climate Breakdown, UN Warns"
  • After Winning Most ANWR Bids, Alaska Agency Prepares To Assume Oil Leases
  • "Biden Swells The Ranks Of His White House Climate Team"
  • "Groups Sue Federal EPA To Rescind Florida Wetlands Authority"
  • Emails Show DOI Ethics Staff Raised Concerns On Oct. Video Promoting Trump
  • "Groups Ask Court To Restore Protections For US Gray Wolves"
  • New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group
  • Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon
  • Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn
  • Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species
  • Arrests in Minnesota After Water Protectors Chain Themselves Inside Pipe Section to Halt Line 3 Construction
  • Dave Bautista Places $20,000 Bounty on Individuals Who Defaced Manatee
  • 4 Major Asian Nations Cancel 80% of Planned Coal Power Projects After Fossil Fuel Market Crashes in 2020
  • Costa Rica pledges to eliminate all single-use plastics and fossil fuels by 2021
  • Axis Capital Rules Out Insuring Arctic Oil and Gas Projects
  • Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
  • "Democrats Eye Action On Range Of Climate Bills"
  • Senate Majority Offers Biden New Paths On Trump Environmental Rollbacks
  • "A Thin Green Line with Global Impact"
  • Los Angeles Lifts Air-Quality Limits For Cremations As Covid Deaths Double
  • "Groups Sue EPA Over 'Backwards' Lead Rule"
  • 12 States, Green Groups Sue EPA Over Airline Standards They Deem Weak
  • "Montana’s National Bison Range Transferred To Tribes"
  • "Analysis: Mississippi Pump Fight Unresolved As Trump Departs"
  • "Trump Admin Proposes 11th-Hour Plan To Strip Calif. Desert Protections
  • "Thai Caves Attract Millions of Bats — and Now Scientists Too"
  • "Court Voids a ‘Tortured’ Trump Climate Rollback"
  • "Gina McCarthy Outlines Biden's First Climate Actions"
  • Biden to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline in Inauguration Day Executive Order
  • High Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change: State or Fed Jurisdiction?
  • "Biden To Order Agencies To Revisit Vehicle Tailpipe Emissions Standards"
  • Manchin Talks Inauguration, Impeachment, New Leverage In Congress
  • Biden ‘Inheriting A Disaster’ As Virus Continues To Grip Nation
  • "EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Taken to Court by States, Cities"
  • China's 2020 Coal Output Highest Since 2015, Undermining Climate Pledges
  • Calls To Protect Alabama's Unique 60,000-Year-Old Underwater Forest
  • "Biden, in a Burst of Climate Orders, Rejoins the Paris Agreement"
  • "Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy"
  • US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
  • Bernhardt Rescinds Wilderness Protection Order Before Leaving Office
  • "Senate Power-Sharing Talks Hits Filibuster Snag"
  • "Grim Prospects for Drilling on Arctic Leases Despite Trump Push"
  • 15 States Sue EPA Over Decision Not To Tighten Pollution Standard For Smog
  • "Path to Biden’s Green Buying Pledge Runs Through Obama Policies"
  • "Northwest’s Salmon Population May Be Running Out of Time"
  • "Electric Car Batteries With Five-Minute Charging Times Produced"
  • ‘Spectacular’ orange-furred bat described from West African mountain
  • Fears for rosewood as Guinea-Bissau prepares to lift six-year logging ban
  • Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
  • Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
  • Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls
  • Biden to review changes to national monuments
  • Astronomers estimate Titan’s largest sea is 1,000-feet deep
  • Prince of Wales trappers report 68 wolves taken in 2020
  • Spitting cobras may have evolved unique venom to defend from ancient humans
  • Biden blocks drilling in ANWR
  • New Mexico zoo sends endangered wolf pack to Mexico
  • Indigenous agroforesty revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
  • New species of ancient caiman unearthed in Texas
  • California leads charge against parting gut of endangered species act
  • Dead whale, one of Mediterranean’s largest, found off Italy
  • IUCN releases best practices guidelines for cultural and spiritual significance of nature
  • Pandemic drastically cut emissions from cars but was completely cut out but sales of SUVs
  • Germany approves draft law to end mass culling of male chicks
  • Trillions of brood 10 cicadas to emerge in US after 17 years underground
  • Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Ibera Wetlands after 70 years
  • Pet trade relies on disposable wild chameleons from Madagascar
  • Biden blocks Keystone XL pipeline
  • China’s 2020 coal output rises to highest since 2015, undermining climate pledges
  • Indonesia hit by possibly worst floods in 50 years
  • Covid is threatening Africa’s gorilla trekking industry – but responsible tourism could be the cure
  • Bill to outlaw traps, snares, and wildlife poisons introduced in New Mexico Senate
  • Scientists dropped dead alligators onto the seafloor, and discovered a new bone-eating creature
  • Tiger skin seized, 3 poachers held in Indore
  • Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
  • Earth’s oceans are storing record-breaking amounts of heat
  • Remembrance Forests in Brazil: 200,000 trees for 200,000 COVID victims
  • On last full day in office, Trump grants Arctic drilling leases
  • Elephants look tiny from space, but scientists figured outhow to count them
  • Supreme court considers Baltimore suit against oil companies
  • Researchers may have heard the’ humming sound’ of the universe for the first time ever
  • Two new northern white rhino embryos created at Christmas – now there are five
  • New orchid species identified in Madagascar
  • Two shark species sighted for the first time in the Galapagos
  • Hawaii’s military bases dumped 630,000 pounds of toxic nitrate into the ocean
  • Newly-discovered Hawaiian flower is so rare, there is only one plant of its species
  • Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar
  • Conservation biologist murdered in Colombia saved two species
  • Nashville Zoo mourns loss of newborn giraffe
  • Astronomers discover rare, 10 billion year old ‘super-earth’ outside of our solar system
  • Nature Conservancy of Canada asks visitors to respect nature reserves
  • Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy
  • Trump administration proposed 11th hour plan to strip California desert protections
  • Protestors hold back military takeover of Balkans largest mountain pasture
  • Additional mink test positive for COVID
  • NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’
  • Rare whales spotted off coast of Virginia
  • World’s oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions
  • How companies wrongly placed climate change on the public
  • Beetle keeps rivals off scent of food buried for offspring
  • Birds’ genetic secrets revealed in global DNA study
  • Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change
  • Satellites are being used to help save the world’s coral reefs
  • Wind power overtakes coal in Texas electricity generation
  • Indonesia palm oil traders are failing land and environmental defenders
  • New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by indigenous group
  • New antimicrobial streptomyces species discovered in ancient Irish soil
  • Lawsuit launched to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for Sierra Nevada Red Fox
  • The European bison is no longer a vulnerable species
  • 1 in 100 camels die after foraging on plastics mistaken for food
  • Boris Johnson blames onset of coronavirus pandemic on ‘demented’ Chinese medicine
  • China removes pangolin scales from traditional medicine list
  • Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade
  • New mangrove mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities
  • Glass frogs living near roaring waterfalls wave hello to attract mates
  • Salish Sea Killer Whales have surprising new way of hunting
  • Large mammals make soil more fertile in tropical forests
  • US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific
  • Boris Johnson vows to take a stand against Japanese whale killing
  • 2020 was hottest year on record on narrow margin
  • Manatees had a terrible 2020; rainfall and floodgates are partly to blame
  • California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years
  • Yellowstone’s rarest animal caught on trail camera for first time
  • The Center of Biological Diversity is now a proud member of IUCN
  • Researchers trace geologic origins of Gulf of Mexico’s ‘super basin’ success
  • Eastern snapping turtle use culverts to hunt migratory herring
  • Electric eels work together to zap prey
  • Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributes to COVID lockdowns
  • Massive new dinosaur might be the largest creature to ever roam Earth
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